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24 Jun 2009, 2:54 am
To be honest, I was a college student and was in very good health. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 12:28 pm
In 2005, while attending Deep Springs College — a rigorous two-year institution in the California desert where pupils take part in such activities as harvesting alfalfa fields and laying gopher traps — a student magazine wrote that Eldridge would “soon become an American to pursue a political career in this country. [read post]
16 Apr 2009, 5:31 am
Some suggestions for reforming the economics behind emergency medicine make sense, like this one from the American College of Emergency Physicians: Some health insurance plans deny claims for legitimate emergency departments visits, based on a patient's final diagnosis, rather than the presenting symptoms (e.g., when chest pain turns out not to be a heart attack). [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 2:50 am
" Similar misgivings emerged in a study presented by Cleveland Clinic Foundation researchers at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) that ended this week. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 10:24 am
Excitable bloggers like us ought to calm down, because it’s not as if official crackdowns on the dispensing of freebies ever generate absurd results: Docblogger White Coat just snapped that picture at the scientific assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 3:08 pm
In response to this change, the American College of Radiology recently issued a statement strongly opposing these cuts, suggesting that they would shift necessary imaging care to large hospitals, increase the cost to Medicare of appropriate imaging, reduce accessibility and cause potentially life threatening delays in diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other serious illnesses. [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 2:14 pm
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has long recommended that women who are pregnant or plan to become pregnant avoid ingesting Paxil (paroxetine) and similar prescription antidepressants, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 7:20 am
Opening Argument - Max Kennerly A 2006 American College of Surgeons report[1] concluded, "the single most important factor shaping the [emergency] surgical workforce today is declining reimbursement," a euphemism for cutthroat health insurer tactics. [read post]
Massachusetts General Hospital Study Finds Physicians are Reluctant to Report Incompetent Colleagues
3 Aug 2010, 6:43 pm
Virginia Hood, president-elect of the American College of Physicians and professor of medicine at The University of Vermont School of Medicine. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 1:36 pm
To return to "board eligible" status, the candidate must complete an additional year of training in a department with an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited or Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)-accredited diagnostic radiology or radiation oncology residency program. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 3:29 am
A report recently released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) shows that Texas ranks near the bottom in major categories related to access to medical care. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 8:00 am
The change by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) replaced Friedman’s curve with new labor standards. [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 7:00 am
")Medical/health community's reactions:Articles/blog posts:"How the Toxic Stress of Family Separation can Harm a Child," PBS, 18 June 2018 [text]"Kids Can Suffer Permanent Damage from Border Separations," NBC News, 15 June 2018 [text]We Are Better Than This (LexisNexis Immigration Law Blog, June 2018) [text]"What Separation from Parents Does to Children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’," Washington Post, 18 June 2018 [text]Statements/letters:AAP… [read post]
26 Jun 2022, 11:31 am
In a blink, women’s reproductive health and their rights suffered a damaging blow, with medical experts, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, and the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, condemning the high court’s allowing states to ban abortion, notably without allowing for exceptions for rape, incest, or when mothers’ lives are imperiled. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 7:49 am
"... said William Briner, a sports medicine physician at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Uniondale, New York, during a session on transgender athletes at the American College of Sports Medicine meeting in early June. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 8:40 am
"And since we know that The Bay State's experiment begat the ObamaTax, this should come as no surprise:"Nationally, nearly half of ER doctors responding to a recent poll by the American College of Emergency Physicians said they've seen more visits since Jan. 1"And 90% expect that number to rise in the very near future. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 9:26 am
Frozen Plasma therapy is slow and unpredictable and most emergency room doctors around the world have been replacing it with Prothrombin complex concentrates (PCCs), a therapy that can reverse Warfarin anticoagulation in minutes according to an article from the American College of Emergency Physician based on a study by Kenneth Frumkin, PhD, MD of the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va. published in Annals of Emergency Medicine. [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 5:30 am
* Students at numerous universities have filed class-action lawsuits alleging their colleges have not properly refunded fees from COVID-19-related closures. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 1:00 am
Whereas The American Thoracic Society (ATS), The American Association for Critical Care Nurses (AACN), The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), The European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), and the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) created an official policy statement in 2015 regarding how medical teams and facilities should respond to requests for potentially inappropriate treatments. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 2:35 pm
The American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, American College of Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, Association of American Medical Colleges, and National Association for Home Care and Hospice also endorsed mandating COVID-19 vaccination for health care workers.In recent weeks, VA has lost four employees to COVID-19 — all of whom were unvaccinated. [read post]
