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Cautionary Tale About a Web-Based Tool Gone Awry
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 months ago
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I just returned from the Social Media, Mobile & Gaming for Pharma conference in New York City where I participated in a panel discussion focusing on the future of social, mobile, & gaming within the pharma industry. I was joined by Julie Wittes
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Suspect in Vancouver attacks appears in court
Edmonton :: Canada | 6 months ago
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PT This Linkedin profile picture is believed to be of the Nicholas Osuteye charged in the attacks. (Linkedin) An Alberta man who was arrested after three women were violently attacked in downtown Vancouver on Friday made a brief court appearance this
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One in three patients wait more than an hour at A&E because departments are struggling to cope with high volumes of patients
Newcastle :: Australia | 6 months ago
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52 No mention of tracking 'patients' who waste the time of the health service, especially in hospitals...It's not a replacement because you didn't want to wait and see your Gp or had a problem for several days / months. If you do come in by ambulance
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ED boarders: A new focus to mitigate overcrowding
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 7 months ago
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the visual has become more familiar than we'd like the young and the old slumped forward on rigid plastic chairs in the waiting room, occupied stretchers lined up in tandem in the hallway. Some of these patients are
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AACC nursing class simulates emergency room environment
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | 7 months ago
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During Anne Arundel Community College 's emergency department simulation, nursing professor Kathy Jo Keever played a patient brought to an emergency room after falling from a tree stand while trying to shoot a 14-point buck. After having her
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Missing scuba divers found
Cape Town :: South Africa | 7 months ago
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They had been missing for about three hours and were found shortly after noon. A charter boat, from which the nine had been diving, lost sight of the group in rough seas on Sunday morning.
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The volume of low acuity patients in the ER is not a myth
Nashua :: NH :: USA | 7 months ago
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The Twitter conversation wound up involving about a dozen ER docs and nurses...The point in contention is an interesting one: we know the nation's ERs are overwhelmed and overcrowded...We also know a big driver of this is boarding of admitted
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I've been waiting three years to see a specialist. What can I do?
Toronto :: Canada | 8 months ago
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Thinkstock video Thinkstock video Thinkstock video The answer I'm sorry to hear that it has taken so long for your husband to see a specialist. Despite long wait lists in Canada for specialists, waiting three years for a first appointment is
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Power outages leave sick with fewer options for medical treatment
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 months ago
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FoxNews.com It has been four days since Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast, and power has yet to return to several communities. While many residents and businesses have been impacted by the loss of power, doctors' offices have also suffered keeping
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A physician removed from the reality of acute care
Nashua :: NH :: USA | 8 months ago
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Maybe that needs to be expanded to encompass the same to other physicians. To be fair I'm sure some of this, perhaps much of it, rests solely on my shoulders. Recognizing that I'm still going to make an accusation that talking life and death with
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