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Gun Violence

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

Additional free firearm resources available at: The BulletPoints Project provides clinical tools for doctors and medical educators to help prevent firearm injury. This site provides resources and downloadable toolkits to preserve firearm legacy and maintain safety.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

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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

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. Reconsidering Systems-Based Practice: Advancing Structural Competency, Health Equity, and Social Responsibility in Graduate Medical Education.

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Episode 285: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations

The Clinical Problem Solvers

A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families. Dr. Hayat mentioned his colleague, Dr. Olivia Shadid, who does work on mental health evaluations for asylum seekers, which can be found here. References Morris JE, Saadi A.