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Health and Safety During LGBTQ+ Pride Month

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

This is a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and allies alike unite to support each other, strengthen the community, and celebrate themselves and others with parades and joyous events. It’s important to be aware of the unique health risks in the LGBTQ+ community.

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Episode 213: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 13 – Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Content Warning: This episode contains themes of violence, trauma-induced mental health concerns, and brief mentions of suicide. Creating spaces where these experiences can be shared by patients as well as by practitioners can highlight the structural nature of seemingly individualized problems. Ethn Health.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. It’s broader than just psychedelic assisted psychotherapy because there’s non-psychotherapists often involved, and it’s different from what we do in conventional mental health.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. Today we find inspiration for my kids: there are adults who care deeply about this issue, particularly for older adults who are much more vulnerable to health effects of climate change. And then access to those.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias.