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A Comprehensive Guide to CT-Angiogram of the Heart-Part 1

Rao Doctor

It also offers improved speed and accuracy, making it a preferred choice for many healthcare providers. By quickly visualizing the coronary arteries, healthcare providers can swiftly determine if there are any acute complications, allowing for immediate treatment interventions that may be lifesaving. How is CT-Angiogram Performed?

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Her mission — preparing the next generation of diverse physician leaders in pediatric healthcare and mental health and creating partnerships between communities and academic centers — will be critical for eliminating disparities among minority populations. Show Transcript Download CPSolvers App here RLRCPSOLVERS Dr. Kevin M.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Race, racism, and racial inequality have tangible impacts on people’s livelihoods, much less their experiences in the healthcare system. These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. eGFR equation-building is a complex science.

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Episode 120: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 1 – Racism, Police Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Public health advocate, leader, and scholar, Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones , is credited for creating the framework many healthcare professionals and researchers use to think about systemic racism’s impacts on Black health. 56:00 Conclusion and outro Episode Takeaways “First do no harm and while you’re doing no harm, learn as much as you can.”

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Eric 21:57 So can our listeners download those right now? So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. Alex 00:24 Great.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She started in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia around Sayantani, and wanted to focus on incarceration as a healthcare issue, and has since engaged in work that attempts to decarcerate health care. Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda: unmasking the betrayal of ‘Healthcare Heroes’. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Feb;103:126-133.

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Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep?

The Medical Futurist

Wake me up when cryosleep ends The trouble with cryogenics and cryosleep is pure physics: our cells are filled with water. At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today. He gives the freezing, thawing and reanimation process “maybe a 5% chance” of working.

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