During the pandemic, I noticed that a lot of routines that people had set up for themselves were disrupted. This led to people, especially older adults who might not work a traditional job with set hours any more, to feel displaced. During our careers, it’s very easy to tie your self esteem and feelings of …
My initial thoughts about telehealth and telemedicine were that it is centered around primary care and outpatient services rather than inpatient acute settings. I used to work at an urgent care where we would get our x-rays reviewed by an on-call radiologist using telemedicine. As far as acute care telemedicine, I was aware of tele …
Before the presentation I didn’t think of needle exchange programs as a public health initiative, at least not one that had an impact on non-IV drug users. I thought it was a bit of an enabling program for drug users, and honestly, I’m not crazy about the program being able to give out 100 needles …
