Health care systems are a major contributor to climate change. The health sector accounts for about 8.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. This is due to several factors, including the use of energy-intensive equipment and buildings, the transportation of patients…
The United States has battled with illegal drugs for well over 100 years. Yet prohibition of these drugs, especially cocaine and opioids, is implemented in an inequitable way in this country, with criminalization of substances used strategically to target people…
This webinar (recorded on October 27, 2022), shares the story of how Dr. Jim O’Connell, President and Founder of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, transitioned from the role of Internal Medicine resident at Massachusetts General Hospital to one…
Presented by the Committee on Ethics, Grievances, and Professional Standards, the Ethics Forum alerts physicians to the ethical implications of issues that arise in daily practice and offers information on issues at the intersection of ethics, medicine, and professionalism. This…
In 2020, 42% of United States households reported owning a firearm. While access to firearms is associated with increased risk for injury and death, safe firearm storage is associated with decreased risk. Clinicians need information on how to appropriately screen…
Persons with Intellectual Disability/Developmental Disability (ID/DD) experience complex physical, medical, emotional and social problems which requires coordination of medical care across multiple disciplines. This webinar reviews the causes and consequences of intellectual and developmental disabilities, suggests strategies for examining and…
As many as 50,000 people in the U.S. die each year by their own hand. Among those, approximately 75% had seen a physician within a year before their death—45% to 66% within the prior month. This course was developed to…
According to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, more than 6 million Americans are misusing prescription drugs. In 2015, Governor Baker announced that Massachusetts was in the midst of an opioid epidemic. In 2019, there were 1,952 confirmed opioid-related overdose…
Presented by the Committee on Ethics, Grievances, and Professional Standards, the Ethics Forum alerts physicians to the ethical implications of issues that arise in daily practice and offers information on issues at the intersection of ethics, medicine, and professionalism. The…
Although deaths from prostate cancer have dropped substantially in recent decades among all men, Black/African American men are twice as likely as White men to die of prostate cancer and continue to have the highest prostate cancer mortality among all…
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