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Dr. Dimitriy Kondrashov was at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park with his 3-year-old daughter when he got the text from his wife. "There was just a crash at SFO," she wrote. Kondrashov, an orthopedic spinal surgeon, dropped his daughter at home and rushed to the hospital.
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Many survivors of Saturday's plane crash in San Francisco have a surprising pattern of spine injuries that a doctor says shows how violently they were shaken despite wearing seat belts.
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As Syria's civil war, now in its third year, grows deadlier by the week, the country's understaffed and inexperienced doctors are overwhelmed by the cases they see. To alleviate their shortfalls, aid organizations such as the Syrian American Medical Society have stepped up to provide training and...
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Electronic health-record systems used in emergency departments are beset with poor data displays, loaded with so many alerts warning of potential patient-safety issues that they can lead to user alert fatigue, and may be generating incorrect physician orders, according to a report by two emergency...
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Urgent-care physician and hockey fan Dr. Patricia Higgins got a taste of her own type of medicine after an encounter with a puck during a recent Stanley Cup final game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins.
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For the past several years, the agency that oversees the nation's residency programs—the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education—has been mired in discussions dealing with resident work hours. The ACGME's Next Accreditation System, its new structure for evaluating physician...
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Emergency rooms, the front line of modern medical care, are crumbling nationwide just as patient visits promise to surge with the 2014 rollout of the Affordable Care Act adding 25 million newly insured patients over time.
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When Dr. Rich Zane arrived last year at the University of Colorado Hospital, he found an emergency room built to handle 25,000 patients a year but was seeing 60,000.
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Though hospitals tend not to encourage the practice, last week's monster tornado in central Oklahoma proved once again that medical centers become irresistible gathering places for fearful and dispossessed residents during large-scale natural...
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Just read the article “Study finds jump in ER-related admissions.” Actually, this could be a good sign, that the ER is being used more appropriately for things that need admission. This might mean...
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