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10 Tips to Find the Best Diabetes Doctor for Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. Zaar

Diabetologist: A doctor who specializes in diabetes (sometimes used interchangeably with endocrinologists). Certification shows they’ve completed specialized training and passed rigorous exams. Are they familiar with managing complications like neuropathy or insulin resistance?

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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. When things become complicated, sometimes the easiest approach to clarity is to simply breakdown all of the complications to their most basic forms. We are all scared.

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Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction

Medical Xpress

Explore further Trials using psychedelic drug to treat trauma, addiction endorsed by Texas Legislature shares Facebook Twitter Email Feedback to editors Featured Last Comments Popular Decades after 9/11, PTSD remains a persistent burden for thousands of responders 3 hours ago 0 A single enzymatic switch steers cell fate in intestinal regeneration Jun (..)

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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

This is the last of three episodes interrogating the relationships between race, place, housing, and health. Push back against discussions that homelessness is caused by substance use or mental health problems. Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice.

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. Once the need for labor was largely met, anti-Chinese narratives (e.g.,

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

It used to be a much more complicated model. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? We weren’t providing physical therapy or providing mental… I mean, we were doing some mental health care, but it was really using what we had available in that space.

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A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

PEMBlog

As always, Im your host, Brad Sobolewski, and today were diving into an important topic, inhalant misuse, with a special focus on nitrous oxide. Further complicating matters is that each inhalant has its own special risks. Chronic misuse of these results in profound hypokalemia and metabolic acidosis.