Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Globally, flooding is the most common type of extreme weather event (EWE) and >500 million children reside in flood zones worldwide. Climate change increases the frequency and severity of floods, with compounding effects on child health.” PW: How is climate change impacting children’s health globally? Shah, DO, and Maya I.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

in the need for healthcare—translating into over 500 million extra days of inpatient hospital care and more than 100 million emergency department visits across Europe by 2050. In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. I guess that’s an event.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

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. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. Michele: Thank you for having me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

I’m Dr. Carney and I am a pediatric resident at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Children’s Defense Fund. 2022, March 18). Retrieved October 7, 2022, from [link] Episode Transcript [Kit] Hello! I’m here with my co-resident, Dr. Humphrey. Thank you for hosting us, Brad!

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited. So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. And then access to those.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. I think it’s a label that people turn to because of mental health stigma.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said.

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