Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Nevertheless, PG doctors have to work 80 to 100 hours a week without any holidays and this tiring schedule does affect their physical and mental health. 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]. are not met.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 14: Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives Show Notes by Alec Calac February 15th, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights how racism manifests in the built environment, and how community and individual-level efforts can mitigate these inequities. Be curious.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

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. Can you tell me about that?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, where the derailment occurred, have pressed the government to do more to answer questions about the mental and physical health effects of the disaster — from post-traumatic stress to cancer. She said it would ensure that local needs and concerns are at the forefront.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Social pain and loneliness. The intro is the upbeat guitar driven version.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs. One thing is clear, it is not because people are using it for FDA approved indications. The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. Welcome back, Ashwin. Ashwin Kotwal: Excited to be back. Eric: Now, it’s interesting.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). We talk about: . This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Homelessness? Marginally housed?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. It is the slippery slope made real. Oh my gosh.

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Doctor Rachel

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Creating community. How can we be in clear and compassionate relationships with others (marriage, parenting, community). Illness is a disruption in the natural flow of things, and restoring right relationship within the body (and sometimes within the family, community or cosmos), restores wholeness and well-being. It’s a lot.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 31, 2021

American physicians and health professionals have immense power and a duty to use that power for the greater good to interrupt, and interrogate the colonial and imperial practices perpetrated by our own government. We must hold our government accountable. We must trust the communities we serve to teach us and to guide initiatives.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And the government can do something about that?!? Yes indeed, we like to hammer that home regularly, dear listeners. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:13 And Alex, who do we have with us today? Is it you, Rebecca?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. Summary Transcript Summary To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. It’s the end of the world as we know it.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. Jessica, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessica 00:49 Happy to be here. Eric 00:50 So we’re going to be talking about anti-asian hate and the older adult. But I had a lot of fun with it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

How has the history of redlining and the federal tax subsidy of wealthy (mostly white) people in the form of a mortgage interest deduction contributed to racial inequalities in homelessness? What can we do about it? What are the highest yield interventions and policy changes? What should we call it – homeless or unhoused? Eric: I love this.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Rescheduling increases the ability to research cannabis to determine the physical and mental impacts of cannabis use. The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027. In other words, no rescheduling.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. We’ll cover why the GUIDE model is important (hint – it all comes down to funding), how it was developed, what components will it include, and how it will be evaluated.

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Tiny Physician

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The Kerala government has taken off all the restrictions imposed due to the case surge as caseload has come down, and is also planning to restart schools from the second half of November. Even a basic understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics is enough to debunk the concepts in this pseudoscience.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Well, on today’s podcast we invite Monica Gandhi to sum up the evidence to date about how best to prevent getting COVID (or at least the severe outcomes of the disease) and how to treat it, including the role of Paxlovid in symptomatic disease. A good twitter criticism of the CDC 1 in 5 COVID survivors have long COVID study. Transcript. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Ali talks about the history of affirmative action, which started as a program for Whites , the importance of diversity in the healthcare workforce , the history of allyship and cross cultural collaboration, and his own efforts to provide opportunity and support for historically oppressed groups in his own community to obtain healthcare careers.

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Physicians News Digest

MARCH 31, 2025

Elon Musk — who is the world’s richest person and whose Department of Government Efficiency, created by a Trump executive order, is infiltrating federal agencies and spearheading mass firings — has claimed without evidence that “there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead” and others “who are not real people.”

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