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People with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Women, in particular, with SCD may be at a higher risk of blood clots than their male counterparts due to other risk factors, such as contraceptives or hormone therapies containing estrogen. People with sickle cell disease (SCD) face the possibility...

Given the increasingly diverse makeup of the US population, culturally competent care is a popular topic of discussion nowadays among healthcare professionals in addition to physician burnout. Research does show, however, that culturally competent care is truly an important way to improve public health and health outcomes of diverse patients. Cultural competence is the ability...