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Episode 402: Neurology VMR – AMS

The Clinical Problem Solvers

From founding a screening initiative for congenital conditions in children to working with other students and residents to create the NeuroAnki flashcard deck to help neurology residents prep for board exams, Bayan is all about supporting others. She is going to apply for a neurology residency program this year.

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Episode 366: Neurology VMR – Headache and Seizure

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Witnessing the challenges faced by the patients from underserved areas, she is dedicated to advancing health equity, research, and global neurology. Download CPSolvers App here RLRCPSOLVERS Bayan Al Zoabu Bayan is a senior medical student from Syria with a passion for neurology and a drive to make a difference in healthcare.

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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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Gun Violence

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

This tool equips clinicians with knowledge on firearms, their uses, benefits, risks and safety to help reduce chances of firearm injury and death in their patients. This site provides resources and downloadable toolkits to preserve firearm legacy and maintain safety. Also view this guide.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. 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 ). That rings true to me.

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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. February 13, 2024.

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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. They can use their training and privilege to advocate for meaningful policy reform. The opioid epidemic is more than a white problem.