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"This is so prevalent, it's just startling," said Dr. Richard Steinmann, head of emergency medicine at Crouse Hospital. "As a parent and as someone who grew ...
‘Recognition of emergency medicine is the need of the hour’
Indian Express, India - Nov 23, 2008
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Study: Patients giving inaccurate information
The Tribune-Democrat, PA - Nov 29, 2008
Results of the study, published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, suggest that inaccuracies are common. But Miller stresses patients have the power to ...
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Valley Regional kicks off fund drive
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911 was calling
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Early on, emergency medicine seemed to be his calling. It was an area he planned to specialize in. In high school he volunteered in the emergency room at a ...
Resident doctors help out locally
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Though Spohn's emergency medicine residency program already was full with eight doctors, it made room for two more. Spohn hospitals had excess space, ...
Do You Know You're Having a Stroke?
MarketWatch - Nov 25, 2008
The findings appear in the current issue of Emergency Medicine Journal at http://emj.bmj.com/. Researchers studied 400 patients who were diagnosed at Mayo ...
David G. Underwood
Concord Monitor, NH - Nov 26, 2008
In 1975, when Concord Hospital was first developing a full-time Emergency Department, he switched to emergency medicine and was instrumental in developing ...
Legal risk to life-saving doctors
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Nov 28, 2008
Professor Mike Ardagh, from the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, told the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine in Wellington ...
Veterinarian attends training at Texas A&M
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COLLEGE STATION - John T. Holmstrom, DVM, of Hutto attended a Small Animal Emergency Medicine and Critical Care conference at the College of Veterinary ...
Emergency departments struggle to find staff
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Nov 30, 2008
In an email on Thursday the director of emergency medicine for both hospitals, Garry Nieuwkamp, told doctors: "We hope this is a short-term withdrawal. ...
College for Emergency Medicine Meeting
Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - Nov 26, 2008
Wellington has just finished hosting a highly successful 25th anniversary annual scientific meeting of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. ...
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It's difficult to imagine practicing emergency medicine today without ultrasound guidance." "Using ultrasound reveals anatomy previously unseen. ...
Emergency rooms face crisis
Times Daily (registration), AL - Nov 13, 2008
"The crisis in emergency medicine and the problems of the growing uninsured population have been conflated," Dr. Manya Newton, lead author of the study and ...
Healer at high altitude
TheNewsTribune.com, WA - Nov 27, 2008
"Luanne has always been very self-directed" says Robert Shesser, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington ...
Drug firms accused of bribing doctors
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Nov 25, 2008
Professor George Jelinek, who will address the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine conference in Wellington today, told The Dominion Post it was ...
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Not just any doctor can work in ER, officials contend
Telegraph-Journal, Canada - Nov 25, 2008
SAINT JOHN - Dalhousie University's concerns about sending its emergency medicine residents to the Saint John Regional Hospital's ER aren't limited to the ...
State of emergency
Telegraph-Journal, Canada - Nov 24, 2008
Dr. Kirk Magee, director of the Royal College's emergency medicine residency program at Dalhousie, says that under the Royal College of Physicians and ...
When it comes to ER pay, it's $144 an hour across the board Telegraph-Journal
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Govt to set maximum emergency dept waiting times
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Nov 23, 2008
In notes for a speech delivered to the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine conference in Wellington, Mr Ryall said district health board (DHBs) ...
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MarketWatch - Nov 11, 2008
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