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Barriers to and Facilitators of Participant Engagement in a Multi-level Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes and Food Insecurity [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) at an urban academic medical center in the Midwest. Population Studied: Adults (≥18 years) who receive care at an affiliated clinic, screen positive for food insecurity, have a T2D diagnosis, and an A1c level > 7.5%. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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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

In the United States testing is routinely done for communal water, though responsibility for testing and treatment of private wells falls on homeowners. Despite recommendations for routine screening, this is rarely done. Arsenic cannot be seen, tasted, or smelled.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. But then there is incontinence, which is the same term, same word, but actually presents as a geriatric syndrome.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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But at the end of the day, I actually view medicine more as an applied science. So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Emily 06:27 Yes.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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Summary Transcript CME Summary In todays podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine ( AAHPM ) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association ( HPNA ). Who would/should be on that board?

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

GeriPal

Tim 40:33 Yeah, I was going to say, I think, you know, we talked about kind of external to the health system, but within health systems, I think certainly things like social determinants of health screening that gets at a lot of these issues of loneliness, transportation.

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

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We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Annals of Internal Medicine. Mariah 23:02 Right.