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Action Needed to Close Racial Gaps in Autism Services

Physician's Weekly

As autism diagnoses increase, especially in marginalized groups, experts call for better funding, research inclusion, service access, and workforce diversity. Common barriers include language barriers, a lack of cultural understanding from service providers, and longer waitlists to use these services in underserved areas.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

And I think that when we’re faced with a child who has one of these diagnoses, that’s where we need to weigh the risks and benefits. And I always say that I do not envy my emergency medicine colleagues, particularly those practicing in community settings. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults. So NIA and further funded this coordinating center that we call Clin-STAR.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. So you could start that in the emergency department if the symptoms are severe enough, provided that they have primary doctor follow ups.

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Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

The researchers recommended including community members in intervention design, healthcare systems, and policies. It is also imperative that clinicians provide culturally sensitive care, recognizing that Black women may have elevated levels of caregiving stress, elevated internalized stigma, and high rates of trauma.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. Eric 10:25 Great.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving. “Do you guys do this?”

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