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Recognizing RSV Symptoms in Kids

Doctor On Demand

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common respiratory infection that can affect individuals of all ages, but it is particularly prevalent in young children and older adults. Coughing and Sneezing: Respiratory symptoms such as coughing and sneezing are common in all these illnesses.

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RSV: Recognizing RSV Symptoms in Adults

Doctor On Demand

Updated January 22, 2025 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common respiratory infection that can affect individuals of all ages, but it is particularly prevalent in young children and older adults. Coughing and Sneezing: Respiratory symptoms such as coughing and sneezing are common in all these illnesses.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Understand that collective action and a focus on community, rather than individualism, are most effective in combating racism and achieving health equity. One of the biggest barriers to health equity is the narrow focus on the individual and a failure to see health as a widespread community issue.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Pearls Defining Structural Racism Structural racism is a term that acknowledges that racism is perpetuated beyond individual interactions and interpersonal racism, but is present in the systems and policies that govern our everyday lives. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(22):2113-2115. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1609535 Alyasah Ali Sewell, Justin M.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Maybe that’s where the individualizing it, the person that’s front of me.

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

GeriPal

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Alex: And Hsien and Sammy together podcast on the Waiting Room Revolution, which is available wherever you can download your podcasts, and are the authors of a book called Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest.

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Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep?

The Medical Futurist

There are now nearly 300 cryogenically frozen individuals in the US, another 50 in Russia , and a few thousand prospective candidates signed up. However, if we could make it work, it would really be a game-changer — from saving terminally ill patients to solving one of the main problems of interstellar travels. Want to be fit and well?

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