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Deodorant Preservative Found In Breast Tissue From Cancer Patients
Jan 14, 2012, 02:49

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Slippery Stuff: CASEVAC vs. MEDEVAC
The working definitions of CASEVAC and MEDEVAC are so misleading that you must ask the person using the terms exactly what is meant. For instance, US Air Force “Pedro” performs CASEVACs. If you ask a Pedro pilot with hundreds of combat missions behind him, his definitions are likely to be simple: 1) CASEVAC is armed. 2) MEDEVAC is unarmed. Dec 8, 2011, 23:39

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A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead
Dec 4, 2011, 21:03

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Red Air
The US Army burdens its Dustoff helicopters with Red Crosses due to internal political struggles about who controls the helicopters. This leaves patients bleeding on battlefields. Nov 28, 2011, 20:28

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Man told pain due to hysterectomy
A Dannevirke man has lodged a complaint with MidCentral Health after they allegedly failed to diagnose his gallstones, instead telling him the severe stomach pain he was experiencing may have had something to do with a "past hysterectomy". Nov 11, 2011, 23:24

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Crawley's Rolls Royce ambulance - Nostalgia
Nov 6, 2011, 21:34

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Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds
A museum within a museum, devoted to histories most questionable medical devices Nov 3, 2011, 00:02

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Toyota Shows Machines to Help Sick, Elderly Move
Toyota unveiled its ambitions for high-tech health care Tuesday, displaying experimental robots that the auto giant says can lift disabled patients from their hospital beds or help them walk. Nov 2, 2011, 23:52

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Boss Told Me To Stop Giving Dying Co-Worker CPR, Says Service Rep
Oct 15, 2011, 00:33

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1885 journal tells of first ambulance service
Remarkably, on Feb. 2, 1885, Charity Hospital in New Orleans implemented a horse-drawn ambulance system with many of the features provided by Acadian some 85 years later. Oct 7, 2011, 02:28

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The Alaska search and rescue thin line
A trooper helicopter earlier this summer took a long nine hours to reach a group of National Outdoor Leadership School students after they were attacked by a grizzly bear in the Talkeetna Mountains in large part because it had been tied up in a futile SAR operation in the Fairbanks area earlier the same day. Two of the NOLS students mauled by that bear had suffered life-threatening injuries. They were being treated by fellow students who could only hope and pray rescuers would arrive before their classmates bled to death. Sep 17, 2011, 19:54

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Mutant genes for asthma found, point to possible therapy
In a paper published in The Lancet medical journal, researchers in Australia said they had identified the two rogue genes after comparing 58,000 DNA samples of people living in Australia, Europe and the United States with and without asthma. Sep 13, 2011, 00:43

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» Baby, You Can Drive My Ambulance
Never mind why, but the other day I was sitting in the waiting room of a medical clinic in an English suburb when I witnessed one of the the most extraordinary things I've ever seen.

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I Thought Social Media Was Stupid
While I used to devour each issue of JEMS and EMS World the day they arrived, I just didn’t care about learning any more. Sep 8, 2011, 17:16

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Interesting Read: In unlikely place, the human face of 9/11
Sep 4, 2011, 17:29

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» When a Patient Dies, It's a Different Story
When pilots or medical personnel go down in an air ambulance crash, there is little legal recourse. Workmens' compensation precludes them or their families from suing their employer. Unless they can prove the accident was a due to a defect in the aircraft, there is no way for them to sue for compensation.

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» Highly Recommended Reading. Trial-by-Fire: NY Training New Medical School Students as EMTs
One way to cultivate better people skills is to give medical students more hands-on experience with patients as well as by having them interact with other medical professionals in a team-based setting. Hofstra's first year medical students must also become licensed EMTs and ride with North Shore ambulance teams in Long Island and New York City.