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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

This is the last of three episodes interrogating the relationships between race, place, housing, and health. Push back against discussions that homelessness is caused by substance use or mental health problems. Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

It feels special to me. Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. So, for example, in my essay, I initially used the phrase emergency room, and JAMA said, “We use emergency department.” I don’t know what this is. It feels important to me. Eric: Yeah.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health. I should pay attention to it, too.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. We’ve seen the stigma associated with mental health. We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. I heard this loud click.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. You get double whammy. Diane: Yeah. That’s true.