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• Kayenta, AZ: ER Physician

  
  International Jobs for Physicians, Nurses and Allied Health - atlasmed.com — Authority: 147
  ER providers with frontier skills – doctors who are comfortable with ambiguity and show the good judgment to call for assistance locally when they need another pair of hands.   Consultation help is usually just a phone call away.  Often telephone colleagues at a distance to arrange admission or simply get ...
  21 hours ago

• Which Specialists Steal The Most Food From The Doctors’ Lounge?

  
  Better Health — Authority: 509
  So I went to eat my free daily  lunch offering the other day  in the doctors lounge when I noticed that a giant plate of enchiladas was just about  empty.  At 10:35 am.   It’ not every day you get a free hot meal at Happy’s hospital,  I would like to thank the Medicare National Bank for paying for my ...
  2 days ago

• BreathQuant Moves Closer to CT-Free Diagnosis of PE

  
  Medgadget — Authority: 619
  Dr. Jeffrey Kline, research director at Carolinas, has long been known in Emergency Medicine circles for his groundbreaking research in diagnosing pulmonary embolism. Throughout this decade, however, hes also been advancing his medical device company, BreathQuant Medical Systems (and, judging by the picture, hes also ...
  4 days ago

• Motorcycle Helmets: Why Don’t People Wear Them?

  
  Better Health — Authority: 509
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported an analysis of motorcycle helmet use in fatal crashes. What was discovered is not surprising - namely, that in states in which there is not a state helmet law, the odds of a rider in a single-vehicle (e.g., the motorcycle) crash wearing a helmet was 72% ...
  5 days ago

• The Game of Life & American Tragedy

  
  Better Health — Authority: 509
  Three of my children love to play the game ‘Life,’ where players choose college or career and are paid, take out loans, pay taxes, have families and all the rest as they navigate towards retirement.  I especially love playing with them when they each become frantic, not for the highest income, but to finish the ...
  5 days ago

• Treatment of Sickle Cell Pain: Fostering Trust and Justice [Commentary]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 441
  
  6 days ago

• Speaking the truth, the wrong way

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 458
  Today I saw a prominent local businessman I know.  I passed him in one of the restaurants he owns, where he was meeting with his wife and some others who were themselves involved in his restaurant.He asked me how things were in the ER.  ‘Wide open,’ I answered, in a standard South Carolina idiom.  I [...]
  1 week ago

• Is This A Healthcare Crisis Or A Crisis Of Culture?

  
  Better Health — Authority: 509
  I got an email today laying out the reality of our current health care debate.  Is it a crisis of culture or a health care crisis.  I am a firm believer in taking responsibility for one’s actions.  I believe those who chose not to practice healthy lifestyles should pay more for the consequences of their ...
  1 week ago

• Bookends In The ER

  
  Better Health — Authority: 509
  Crummy shift the other night: 23 patients in eight hours, and 21 of them were painful. For me, that is, not necessarily for the patients. Lots of worried well, influenza, some minor injuries and a few chronic pain players. Not a single sick one in the lot. One particularly irksome case was a chronic pain patient ...
  1 week ago

• ER Doc Finds Creative Way To Make Coffee During Power Outage

  
  Better Health — Authority: 509
  I like living on the edge of built-up civilization, but it means our little development has one electric line coming in. Today it wanted some time off, fortunately only 4 hours. Didn’t get that cold inside, but having an all electric house has some drawbacks in that circumstance. My wife figured out the ...
  1 week ago

• Inosine and strokes.

  
  New Media Medicine — Authority: 156
  Is Inosine licenced by the MHRA for stroke treatment in an acute setting? I could only see reference to Inosine Pranobex (Inosine Acedoben Dimepranol) an anti Viral for treatment of HSV, though I have an old BNF.
  1 week ago

• Taking Joy In The Little Things

  
  Better Health — Authority: 509
  The past few days have shown me some small pleasures of my practice.  I spent about 20 minutes sewing together the hand and forehead of a sweet elderly lady who fell down while being evacuated from a nursing home fire.  Her skin, like tissue, came together in fragile folds; my hands moved easily with the needle and ...
  1 week ago

• The Game of Life

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 458
  Here is my column in today’s Greenville News.We need to help youngsters learn The Game of Life!http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20091203/OPINION/912030305/1016/Ed-Leap-We-need-to-help-youngsters-learn-%E2%80%98Game-of-LifeThree of my children love to play the game ‘Life,’ where players choose college or ...
  1 week ago

• Chances of surviving cardiac arrest at home or work remain unchanged in 30 yrs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): The chances of surviving out-of-hospital heart attacks have not changed in the past 30 years, reveals a new US study.The University of Michigan research showed that only 7.6 percent of victims survived cardiac arrest at home, restaurant or work, a number that has not improved over three ...
  1 week ago

• No improvement in surviving heart attack at home

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Washington, Dec 3 (IANS) Chances of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have practically remained unchanged since the 1950s, according to a new report.The analysis by University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) shows only 7.6 percent of victims survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. It’s a dismal trend ...
  1 week ago

• Much Ado About George: My Father In Law’s Trip To The ER

  
  Better Health — Authority: 509
  My father in law is 83 years old. He has high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and occasional “senior moments.” He rarely complains about anything, and spends most of his time doing household chores, playing with grand kids, and watching TV. So it was with some degree of concern that I raised my head from my ...
  1 week ago

• Phoenix, AZ: Physician Emergency medicine

  
  International Jobs for Physicians, Nurses and Allied Health - atlasmed.com — Authority: 147
  Physician specialized in Emergency Medicine required in Arizona Legal US Residents onlyApply here
  1 week ago

• Phoenix, AZ: Physician Emergency medicine

  
  International Jobs for Physicians, Nurses and Allied Health - atlasmed.com — Authority: 147
  Physician specialized in Emergency Medicine required in Arizona Legal US Residents onlyApply here
  1 week ago

• The Christmas Parade

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 458
  This is my column in the December Emergency Medicine News.  I’ll put up an actual link to the magazine version as soon as I can get it.Merry Christmas!  (I’ll say it again and again.)  And Happy December 1st!The Christmas ParadeI remember one year that my family and I went to our local Christmas parade. [...]
  1 week ago

• New “Shaving Cream” Stops Bleeding

  
  Better Health — Authority: 509
  Remedium Technologies won first prize in the Most Promising Security Idea category of the Global Security Challenge 2009 for their shaving cream-like foam that can stop bleeding. The foam incorporates chitosan, a natural low-cost hemostatic substance derived from shellfish. It is designed to be sprayed into wounds ...
  2 weeks ago

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