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

Rao Doctor

Unlike traditional angiography, which necessitates catheter insertion and carries certain risks, a CT-angiogram is performed externally and is generally considered safer and more comfortable for patients. It also offers improved speed and accuracy, making it a preferred choice for many healthcare providers.

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS: Childhood obesity is associated with physical and psychosocial comorbidities that negatively affect the child’s health and quality of life. It is also important that the patient feels this intervention can help them with this problem (ie, how they perceive the response efficacy of the intervention).

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Episode 197: WDx #13 – Macro/microaggressions

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Her academic interests include physical exam-focused medical education where she co-directs the Enhanced Clinical Skills Residency Track and serves as Investigator for the AMA Reimagining Residency Grant awarded to John Hopkins, Stanford, and UAB focused on studying clinical skills as it relates to resident wellness.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

19:05 Clarifying the “ethics vs science” argument and critiquing research techniques 22:00 Resurgence of race-based speculation in COVID-19-related research 25:57 Implantation of ideas about innate racial inferiority within medicine 28:32 Will removal of race from algorithms potentially harm our patients?

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

GeriPal

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ). in the usual care group.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Police brutality Police brutality should be thought of as the ways state-sanctioned violence leads to the physical, psychological, and emotional harm of its victims. This starts with self-education and a commitment to speak up when blatant examples of racism come up in the work space and beyond.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

However, it is important to think about individual stories within the broader historical and sociocultural context; for instance, you cannot highlight stories in individual physician-patient dyads, without discussing mechanisms of racialized, historical, or sociocultural power and other larger structural forces.