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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. The first few chapters discuss the problems with mental health care in the U.S.

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5 things you can do to improve your health that have nothing to do with dieting

Vida Family Medicine

There is a lot of conflicting and inaccurate information out there about nutrition, so in many cases these patients end up following a fad diet or excessively restricting their intake which can actually backfire and worsen their health, both mentally and physically. but adequate restful sleep is essential for wellbeing.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. Jace 29:36 We see higher rates of mental health challenges that I think are due to overcoming adversity. It’s like this one big book that you can access. And of note, these concepts are not mutually exclusive.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. I like it, John.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. So we took a look at three different domains of quality of life that are relevant to end of life care. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. I, I gotta say I’m lucky to have trained at the University of Toronto where, you know, there, there, there, there is some good foundational training for the trainees to go through in use health, opioid agonist therapy, et cetera.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. It was actually in the first draft of the book.