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The Guardian (U.K.) today has a piece “In Focus: Mephedrone” in which they talk to four people: a user, a mother, a dealer, and a doctor. Unfortunately, despite its title, the piece is so unfocused that I really didn’t learn anything from it. Who exactly are these people. Is...
I came across this news video about pocket ultrasounds (see screen grab from video above), alleging that they are “revolutionizing” emergency medicine. The units are small, but, at a weight of almost 2 pounds, they appear to be too bulky for carrying around in a pocket. Definitely small...
Neuroskeptic has a nice post about Absinthe Fact and Fiction. Speaking of absinthe and fiction, here’s a beautiful passage from Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls describing the interior monologue as Robert Jordan — fighting in the Spanish Civil War — recalls Paris as he...
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and with the experiential lyrics of Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary fame) to lead us, we take a musical stroll through the annals of colorectal musical history... Related posts:Working where the sun don’t shine… Emergency Musical...
In 1905 William Osler gave his farewell address as he prepared to leave Johns Hopkins for Oxford and England. After speaking to the assembled medical students about the tragic side of medicine he said: "The comedy, too, of life will be spread before you, and nobody laughs more often than the doctor...
I was disappointed when I interviewed then-ACEP President Nick Jouriles last year that ACEP had not staked out a clear position on health care reform. However, it was not terrible that they did not have a position at that time, because the House bill was still being finished up and the Senate was...
2.5 out of 5 stars Clinical Events in Mad Honey Poisoning: A Single Centre Experience. Bostan M et al. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol Jan 2010;84:12-22. Abstract As TPR noted in a previous post entitled “Mad Honey Sex“, pollen of certain Rhododendron species contains grayanotoxins...
Modeled on Michelle Lin's successful blog, 'Academic Life in Emergency Medicine', the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine are introducing a new intiative to help practitioners of peri-departmental medicine, a new blog called "Academic Strife in Waiting Room Medicine". Related posts:The Art...
(I shouldn't taunt him like that, but I can't help it.) I saw this post from GD and that reminded me that I had intended to blog about this sorta-local story but had forgotten:Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take...
Courtesy of the police scanner in our emergency department, we’ve heard a run on concerned citizens reporting some odd things to the police lately. There’s the report of the “reckless driver” who had the nerve to pass an elderly person’s car coming into town. A...
There are 11 upcoming events for this specialty.
SARASOTA April 5-9, 2010 Emergency & Trauma, Paediatrics, Paediatrics Surgery
NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION: Following this course, the participant should be able to formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis of the various presenting disorders; apply proper life-stabilizing measures as well as identify the life-threatening...
SARASOTA April 5-9, 2010 Emergency & Trauma, Paediatrics, Paediatrics Surgery
NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION: Following this course, the participant should be able to formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis of the various presenting disorders; apply proper life-stabilizing measures as well as identify the life-threatening...
SARASOTA April 5-9, 2010 Emergency & Trauma, Paediatrics, Paediatrics Surgery
NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION: Following this course, the participant should be able to formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis of the various presenting disorders; apply proper life-stabilizing measures as well as identify the life-threatening...
SARASOTA May 3-7, 2010 Emergency & Trauma, Sports Medicine, Primary Care/General Practice/Family Medicine
Following this course, the participant should be able to identify the diagnostic and therapeutic options for commonly seen disorders; apply an approach to exercise, sports participation and special problems in athletes such as the use of steroids...
BRUSSELS May 15-18, 2010 Emergency & Trauma
After very successful meetings in Graz in 2007, Budapest in 2008 and Antalya in 2009, the European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery rapidly evolves towards a traditional and esteemed annual event of ESTES.In 2010, this Congress will take...
CHATHAM May 27-28, 2010 Emergency & Trauma, General Surgery, Intensive/Critical Care
Who should attend: pulmonary diseases, critical care medicine, critical care surgery, surgery-thoracic
SINGAPORE June 9-12, 2010 Emergency & Trauma
Singapore is honoured and proud to host the International Conference on Emergency Medicine (ICEM) in June 2010. The Society for Emergency Medicine in Singapore (SEMS) welcomes all to this meeting that will be held at the Suntec Singapore...
BOLOGNA July 1-2, 2010 Emergency & Trauma
The first Emergency Surgery World Experts Meeting: The World Society of Emergency Surgery Congress will be held between the 1st and 2nd of July, 2010, in Bologna, Italy.
QUEENSTOWN July 3-8, 2010 Emergency & Trauma
The conference will cover aspects of trauma medicine through a series of interactive academic sessions coupled to discussion groups and workshops intended to extend participant's knowledge and practice of trauma medicine.
BIRMINGHAM September 13-15, 2010 Emergency & Trauma
Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the conference website and the 2010 conference of the College of Emergency Medicine, which is themed to encourage exchanges of advances in emergency care from military experience with civilian best practice. We have...
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| Name | Location |
| Silvia Marth Community Member | Germany |
| Valerie Sellers Community Member | United States |
| mike leary Medical/Dental Professional | Australia |
| Joseph Kohn MD | United States |
| yahia soliman Medical/Dental Professional | Egypt |
| panagiotis petropoulos Medical/Dental Professional | Greece |
| Jun Ma Health Care Professional/Student | China |
| Christine Biggers Medical/Dental Professional | United States |
| Tanya Przewieda Medical/Dental Professional | United States |
| Eva Sukosd Medical/Dental Professional | Canada |
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