In this episode of Clinical Problem Solvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine, we sit down with Ed Yong, an award-winning journalist and science writer with The Atlantic, to discuss the structural inequities amplified by COVID-19 as well as the social concerns associated with the impending/present second wave of the pandemic. Learning Objectives After listening to th ... Show More
Nov 13
Episode 430: WDx #39: Clinical Unknown with Drs. Kuchal Agadi and Ann Marie Kumfer
In this episode of WDx, Cheryl, Kaylin, and Sharmin are joined by Kuchal and Ann Marie, two wonderful members of the CPSolvers Academy. Kuchal presents a case of a young man with fevers to Ann Marie and Sharmin. Download CPSolvers App here RLRCPSOLVERS
59m 15s
Jan 2022
The Pandemic Lessons We Clearly Haven’t Learned
<p>I remember thinking, as Covid ravaged the country in December 2020, that at least the holidays the next year would be better. There would be more vaccines, more treatments, more immunity. Instead, we got Omicron and a confusing new phase of the pandemic. What do you do with a ... Show More
1h 15m
Feb 2023
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were “deaths of despair” signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout: Ho ... Show More
1h 32m
Aug 2022
The Deadly Puzzle of Yellow Fever
August 27, 1900. Dr. Jesse Lazear, a U.S. Army surgeon, walks into Las Animas Hospital Yellow Fever ward in Havana Cuba, toting a brood of mosquitos. He has the system down: remove the cotton stopper that keeps the mosquito penned in its glass vial, turn the vial over, and seal i ... Show More
33m 12s