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A Few Thoughts on “Attending” Virtual Meetings • October 12, 2021
Once upon a time, long, long ago, before SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, many of us in academic medicine attended in-person scientific meetings that took place annually around the world. I was one such person — usually 2-3 times a year. My primary charge at each of these meetings was to assemble the best, or most interesting, or […]
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“Feel the Musicality”: How Do Surgeons Learn? • May 17, 2021 • Vivek Sant, MD
My friends and I spent Thanksgiving 2018 attending surf school in Jacó, Costa Rica. We spent that week fully immersed in twice-daily surf sessions interspersed with conditioning, balance exercises, and of course, downtime to explore the town and rainforests of Jacó. Having been on a surfboard only a handful of times previously, this was a […]
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Podcast 279: Age-specific data do better than age-adjusted data in revealing health inequities • September 27, 2021
Kiarri Kershaw has written a simple letter in JACC — the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The letter conveys a strong message: health inequities don’t act uniformly across one’s lifetime. Her examination of Black versus white mortality from all causes and from cardiovascular causes with the use of age-specific data shows places in […]
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In Practice, a blog featuring the perspectives of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, was active from 2015 through 2017.
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