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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Consider asking these essential questions: “Based on my age, gender, and health history, what screenings or vaccinations should I receive now and in the coming years?” “Are there specific health risks I should be aware of based on my personal or family history?

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

GeriPal

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.