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Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Permanente Medicine

Modern Healthcare honors physicians and clinicians in executive roles for their exceptional achievements in driving innovation, improving outcomes, serving their communities, and demonstrating exemplary leadership both within and beyond their organizations. million Kaiser Permanente members. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Reasoning during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Clinical Problem Solvers

No prior history of atrial fibrillation – just hypertension and diabetes. Then things started to get a little bit different… His chest x-ray had some peripheral infiltrates, and the emergency department providers ordered a CT scan. We walked down to the emergency room and reviewed his chart.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. J Epidemiol Community Health. We might critically think about why we might use race in a regression model, and proactively consider how we will interpret and responsibly discuss findings that may result.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

All kids with hypertensive emergency need ICU-level care. Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. These neurological manifestations suggest hypertensive encephalopathy, a form of end-organ damage.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

And I think a point that you made, Eric, on a particle on hearing aids is probably providing persons with MCI with a hearing aid and the time and effort it takes to teach them how to use it effectively will do much more to improve cognitive function than any of these advocates. And very frail. Eric 29:17 Yeah, so. Alex 29:26 Exactly.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

Can you give us some examples, even the ones you mentioned in the paper, about how some of these structural races, like these common things that may occur in the hospital or in the clinics that we use, and we may not even think about? You go into this community, perform this study, you leave. Eric: Six months ago. Eric: Yes.

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