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Drinking the Disease: Arsenic Exposure in Well Water from the Perspective of Patients and Providers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Chronic exposure has been associated with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, skin cancer, renal, bladder and lung cancers, polyneuropathy, and QT prolongation. Outcome measures: Use of well water and knowledge about the health risks of chronic arsenic exposure; knowledge about community testing availability.

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Episode 299 – Neurology VMR – Clumsiness

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Sridhara Yaddanapudi @syaddana_neuro Sridhara is a board-certified internist, neurologist, vascular neurologist, and hypertension specialist. In her free time, she is usually playing guitar or climbing a mountain! After suffering from long standing neurophobia, she has embraced her love for neurology and will pursue a career in this field.

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Episode 305: Neurology VMR – Shallow Breathing

The Clinical Problem Solvers

At home, you are most likely to find her in the kitchen preparing your new favorite meal Maria Jimena Aleman @MariaMjaleman María Jimena Alemán was born and raised in Guatemala where she currently works in community and rural health care. Download CPSolvers App here RLRCPSOLVERS

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. Should do medicine?”

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

GeriPal

So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. I think it’s. Often that doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for other things.

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

GeriPal

Certainly a lot of communities we’re thinking about LA right now and the collective trauma that they’re experiencing from the fires. Eric 30:52 And this also reminds me of Dani Chammas article she just published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine. We’ll have a link to it.

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