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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

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Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Is there any feedback in any of these to the PCP? In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening. Get them back in the PCP office. When’s the last time you saw your PCP? Do you even have a PCP?” Katie: I was going to jump in.

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

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Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. So some people said we had very strong opinions about, as clinicians, we should absolutely address these incidents and screen for them. Eric 31:19 Yeah. Alex 34:01 Yeah.