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  Reimagining palliative care learning during a pandemic - Scope

  stanford.edu - Jan DeNofrio

  Last March, when it looked like medical students would not be able to complete an in-person palliative medicine clerkship, one of the clinical …

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  A line of trust: Stanford Medicine physician supports family members, by phone - Scope

  stanford.edu - Daphne Sashin

  Each day, after Ricky Hansra, MD, visits his patients in intensive care, he settles in for another round of check-ins, which he's grown accustomed to …

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  Community bonds help barbers improve health for Black men - Scope

  stanford.edu - Tracie White

  Yusef Wright, who owns and runs a barbershop in downtown Oakland, does a lot more than just cut basketball star Stephen Curry's hair. Wright is a …

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  • Colorectal Cancer

  Earlier colonoscopies halve subsequent cancer risk - Scope

  stanford.edu - Krista Conger

  "You're only as old as you feel" isn't really applicable to routine medical screening, I'm finding (somewhat ruefully). Lately it seems that each …

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  It takes a team: Caring for kids with COVID-19 - Scope

  stanford.edu - Erin Digitale

  In children, respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 are rare. Since the pandemic began, most of the children hospitalized at Lucile Packard Children's …

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  • Northern California

  I wrote a book about a scientist's journey to save his desperately ill son - Scope

  stanford.edu - Tracie White

  The first time I walked up to the Palo Alto home of the legendary scientist Ron Davis, PhD, it was with a heavy heart. It was early evening in the …