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20 Things Changing EM: THE SILVER TSUNAMI1 comment

patersoner wrote 6 hours ago: This is part of a continuing series exploring the Confusing array of changes to healthcare and ident … more →

Tags: Emergency Medicine, geriatric emergency medicine, Geriatrics, Medicine, accountable care organization, American College of Emergency Physicians, Medicare, palliative care, Seniors

Vanderbilt, country superstar Tim McGraw share important message regarding dangers of distracted driving

bostontrauma wrote 20 hours ago: Vanderbilt University Medical Center is raising awareness of the dangers associated with distracted … more →

Tags: Boston Trauma, BMC, Boston Trauma, BU School of Medicine, caraccident, Distracted Driving, LifeFlight, Tim McGraw, Vanderbuilt University Medical Center

A Dry Argument2 comments

magentafrog wrote 2 days ago: Image credit: krisckam / 123RF Stock Photo I spent the morning at the Emergency Department of my loc … more →

Tags: Breastfeeding, Milk, Medicine, breast, Breastpump, breastfeed, Mastitis

32 Reasons Why You Might Be a Gymtard?

Andre Nalin wrote 5 days ago: More than half the people who go to the gym every day don’t do anything meaningful when they … more →

Tags: Training 2, fun stuff, rants, bicep curl, Exercise, Gym, Gymtard, physical exercise, routines

U.S. hospital ICU admissions up 50 percent since 2002

Ralph Turchiano wrote 6 days ago: Published: May 15, 2013 at 10:25 PM  WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) — Admissions to U.S.  hospital i … more →

Tags: societal, patient, hospital, ICU, Intensive care unit, magnetic resonance imaging, Percentage, Emergency Medicine, Peter Mullins

CT Angiography (CCTA) Reduced Medical Resource Utilization compared to Standard Care reported in JACC4 comments

2012pharmaceutical wrote 6 days ago: Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN CT Scanner Delivers Less Radiation Faster, more sensitive scans and … more →

Tags: Personalized Medicine & Genomic Research, Medical Devices R&D Investment, Frontiers in Cardiology, Origins of Cardiovascular DIsease, Bio Instrumentation in Experimental Life Sciences Resea, Medical Imaging Technology, Image Processing/Computing,, Atherogenic Processes & Pathology, PCI, Angiography

Suicide by Advanced Directive6 comments

patersoner wrote 1 week ago: “I WILL MAINTAIN the utmost respect for human life”  - from the Declaration of Geneva Re … more →

Tags: Emergency Medicine, advanced directives, Failed suicide attempt, healthcare proxies, Mental Health, Suicide

San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital’s Long-Awaited ED/ICU Opens Today2 comments

SGMH wrote 1 week ago: May 14, 2013 marks a significant day in the history of San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital. After much an … more →

Tags: Hospital News, Good to know, Events, Construction, Dedication Ceremony, ED/ICU, Emergency Care, Expansion, Grand Opening

Drunk ASU student left at hospital with Post-it

Cyndee Maxwell wrote 1 week ago: TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona State University student who passed out from drinking tequila was lef … more →

Tags: News, features, arizona, Tempe Arizona, blood alcohol content, Arizona State University, Tempe, St. Luke's Hospital Bradford

Healthcare for Leprechauns

hjfoley wrote 1 week ago: They’re Only the Little People The following article was published in some Irish American news … more →

Tags: Government, Local Politics, Ireland, Politics 2, united states, James Reilly, Friday, patient, Irish News

Freestanding emergency departments: benchmarks

kmgarber wrote 1 week ago: Urgent Care Association of America, a trade group representing urgent care centers, has produced thi … more →

Tags: Benchmarking, Posted by Kim Garber, Freestanding emergency rooms

Copeptin Helps “Copeptin Helps in the Early Detection Of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction”: the primary results of the CHOPIN Trial ONLINE FIRST.

zedie wrote 1 week ago: “Copeptin Helps in the Early Detection Of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction”: the primary re … more →

Tags: Medicine, journals, ACS, Chest Pain, patient, Myocardial Infarction, Electrocardiography, acute myocardial infarction, angina pectoris

Waiting in the ER

Insanity540 wrote 1 week ago: “I think that every Emergency Department should have this up on the wall.” … more →

Tags: Pictures], Medicine, ED, hospital, er, emergency room

HOSPITAL CASUALTY DEPARTMENT CLOSURES COST LIVES!

lubkin2013 wrote 1 week ago: Bleed Together (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Well then it will teach us all to BLEED in the right county … more →

Tags: united states, National Health Service, Health Care, The Mail on Sunday, Secretary of State for Health, NHS Trust, Norman Lamb

Toddlers & Teens: The Twilight Times

sethinaw wrote 1 week ago: Sometimes I look at my children and I think , “Bloody hell, I’m their mother. I’ve … more →

Tags: Baby, boundaries, Challenge, chaos, cystic fibrosis, Doctor, Family, Home, junior doctor

Oh, The Places I Go!

specialneedsrealitytv wrote 1 week ago: On this journey I go to doctors’ appointments, And there we are given some disappointments At first … more →

Tags: Special Needs, Developmental Pediatricians, neurologists, Seizures

The Hospital.2 comments

Denise Lai wrote 1 week ago: Elliott Gorelick’s post today warrants republishing (see below here).  And PLEASE SHARE this p … more →

Tags: Alameda Healthcare District Board, Alameda Hospital, urgent care, AFD, Alameda Fire Department, certified stroke centers, City of Alameda, Deborah Stebbins, Emergency Department

Slow Medicine1 comment

denitzablagev wrote 2 weeks ago: Time heals all wounds, they say, or, in medicine, if not all, then many.  But with our improved effi … more →

Tags: nonfiction, On being a doctor, or a patient, or just human, Healthcare, Medicine, Doctor, patient, Science, voltaire, Rationing

Ivy League Professors: Obamacare Penalty Will Hurt Hospitals, Patients.

greatriversofhope wrote 2 weeks ago: By Dan Weil A penalty in the Affordable Care Act on hospitals regarding Medicare patients will work … more →

Tags: Health 2, patient, Wall Street Journal, hospital, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, University of Pennsylvania, Medicare, Affordable Care Act., Harvard Medical School


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