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Nurse practitioners and physician assistants account for at least 10% of outpatient visits and increasingly are being used to handle patient care in emergency departments, according to previous research. But a new survey said 80% of patients expect to see a physician when they come to the ED. Fewer than half would be willing to see an NP or PA for an ankle injury — they would rather wait two more hours to be cared for by a physician. via amednews: Most ED patients willing to wait longer to avoid nondoctor care :: Aug
Here’s a tattoo rule of thumb: Only get one if your job entails shooting people, if you’re an ultimate fighter, or as a safety issue, if you find yourself wrongly incarcerated, and displaying your affiliation with the Aryan Brotherhood will help make prison showers less eventful. Otherwise, let your skin go commando. via Ask Matt Labash Vol
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Ask Matt Labash Vol. XXVII: An anti-tattoo manifesto, letting kids be kids, and playing the deaf card | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion,…
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Longtime Iowahawk readers will recall my old Ozark hotrodding medico friend Darren “Doc” Lee from Operation Dumb-Vee, where we successfully conspired to plaster Doc’s Army unit’s vehicles with morale-boosting refridgerator magnets from home, during his stint in Iraq. You also may recall that Doc is my go-to supplier of, um, “Ozark hair tonic.”I am sad to report that Doc was recently the victim of a terrible garage accident… via iowahawk: Help a Brother Out . Read, and if you wish, give. Your money could go to worse uses
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iowahawk: Help a Brother Out
In presenting the new numbers on Thursday, the centers urged journalists to stop using annual averages like 36,000 or 24,000 and to use more vague estimates like “tens of thousands of people may die.” via Estimate of Deaths in Typical Flu Season Is Lowered – NYTimes.com . Well, good. That’s good news, and being able to scale the threat against you personally is a good thing. This doesn’t mean, by the way, that you don’t need a flu shot. You Do. (I get mine)
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A mentor recently mentioned, in passing, that he stopped riding motorcycles when cellphones came out, as he noticed the average driver distraction level had gone way up. He said ‘its like everybody’s drunk’. There’s lots of ways to be an impaired driver: physical or mental fatigue, chemicals (legal and not), emotional extremes, etc
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Every driver is drunk – bet your life on it
Whether a soldier needs a cure for the common cold or brain surgery, the NATO hospital on Kandahar Airfield can handle it. This is one of Afghanistan’s most sophisticated hospitals, and it provides top medical care on the front line. Just minutes by helicopter from most conflict spots in the country’s south, the hospital saves the lives of 98 percent of the injured who come here.
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NATO Hospital Offers Top Notch Care in Taliban Heartland | Asia | English
Via A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor comes this bit of Genius: How to Answer Nurses’ Questions: An Algorithm for New Interns . Go, read, laugh. You’ll enjoy it.
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How to Answer a Nurses’ Questions: Funniest thing you’ll see this week
ER Fail – FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Funny Pictures and Funny Videos of Owned, Pwned and Fail Moments . Hahahaha…. Related posts: London Olympics 2012: Meet Wenlock and Mandeville, drips off the old block | UK news | The Guardian London Olympics 2012: Meet Wenlock and Mandeville, drips off the..
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DANBURY, Conn. — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Danbury Hospital for failing to provide its employees with sufficient protection against workplace violence
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OSHA Faults Hospital for Workplace Violence Violations – News – Campus Safety Magazine
I was having my occasional glass of red wine with dinner (it’s AMA approved, and possibly cardioprotective, plus, I like it), having a conversation with my grandson, who’s 10ish. (I don’t now his exact age; I’m not one of Those grandparents, and to be fair, I wasn’t one of those parents, either).
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A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor: The med student gunner: profile . Nice one… via Doc_Rob on twitter… Related posts: BlogWorld Medblogger Track There are several of us twittering the medblogger track now…
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A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor: The med student gunner: profile
From Wachter’s World , which he prefaces with: As a member of the executive committee of the American Board of Internal Medicine, I can’t provide too much of the inside scoop, so I’ll mainly point you to the published descriptions of a remarkable case: that of one Dr. Arora, who ran an ABIM board review course with a difference. Good for the ABIM. If you need to cheat to pass the Boards, you don’t need to be Board Certified
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Yikes! Hospital uses armed man in unannounced drill Test of security procedures results in frightening moments By Marshall Allen Saturday, May 29, 2010 | 2:01 a.m. How’s this for an ill-conceived emergency preparedness drill? An off-duty cop pretending to be a terrorist stormed into a hospital intensive care unit brandishing a handgun, which he pointed at nurses while herding them down a corridor and into a room.
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Hospital uses armed man in unannounced drill – Saturday, May 29, 2010 | 2:01 a.m. – Las Vegas Sun
The 2010 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Scientific Assembly is in Las Vegas this year. I’ve registered, bought plane tickets and have a marker on a box under a bridge (but very near the convention site, so I’m good). So, time for you EP’s to get in there and register, and, I’m going to blog it (unless ACEP gets a court order preventing it (they weren’t interested in me blogging for their house blog, so only time will tell…))
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2010 ACEP Scientific Assembly: I’m in
When Americans think about wartime medicine, “MASH” reruns and the comic antics of Hot Lips Houlihan and Hawkeye Pierce are likely to come to mind. A decidedly more authentic view can be found in “Paradise General” and “The Nightingale of Mosul,” books by a real-life Army surgeon, Dr.
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Book Review: Paradise General; The Nightingale of Mosul – WSJ.com
The rumors have been flying around cyberspace for months about the possibility of In-N-Out Burger expanding its empire to Texas.On Wednesday, I finally got confirmation that Southern California’s most beloved burger chain is seeking approval to open fast-food units in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
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In-N-Out Burger to open restaurants in Texas – Fast Food Maven : The Orange County Register
I’ll hold my breath for this to last 10 years. I hope so, but…it’s a business deal with F1. Ask Indy how that works out. Formula One World Championship Limited and Formula One Administration Limited together, the F1 Commercial Rights Holder and Full Throttle Productions, LP, promoter of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™, announce that a historic agreement has been reached for Austin, Texas to serve as the host city of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™ for years 2012 through 2021
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And these are just the ones that link back to me: I obscured the names of the other blogs, as I don’t want to incriminate them for being so silly as to re-run my posts. (I am aware of the irony that I’m doing little original writing right now, doing a lot more linking with minor, banal commentary, and that’s when more people grab my posts.) GruntDoc.com: content provider to more blogs than I thought! Related posts: Paging Dr. Flea The Trial Of A WhiteCoat – Part 1 « WhiteCoat’s…
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