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Episode 209: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 12 – Our Land is Our Health: Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Learn tangible ways to center the Indigenous communities in advocacy efforts at the interpersonal and institutional level. This is especially important when we consider the lasting role colonialism, genocide, and racism has played in attempted erasure of these communities and their culture.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

For instance, the UK government’s initiative to install solar panels on National Health Service sites is projected to save each site up to £45,000 annually, amounting to approximately £13 million in total savings per year. From rising asthma rates to heat-related illnesses, climate change is already harming the most vulnerable among us.

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Episode 120: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 1 – Racism, Police Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Policing and health outcomes Evidence has shown that excessive policing not only impacts the individual health of Black and brown people who’ve interacted with the police, but it also impacts the health of their communities at large. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(22):2113-2115. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1609535 Alyasah Ali Sewell, Justin M.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

Incompetent government The doctor-patient ratio of India is one of the worst in the world; we have 1 doctor for 1456 people against the WHO recommendation of 1:1000 [5]. There is only 1 government doctor for a population of 11,000 people and there is only 1 dental surgeon per 175,000 people [6].

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Noelle Marie 01:15 I do.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. And I believe it needs the community.

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