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Perspectives – Aortic Laceration in a Rural Mississippi ED: A resident’s response

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As usual, I was the only physician staffing this rural critical access hospital with limited resources which sits 61 miles away from our state’s only Level 1 trauma center. The radiology tech has his hand on a weak femoral pulse. In the Spring of my senior year, I was moonlighting at one of the University’s satellite locations.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

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25 Wesley Barnett had heard disturbing stories about the firm staffing his hometown critical-access ED as he was nearing the end of residency at the University of Kentucky, so he founded an independent physician group to try to take back the contract. Accessed August 25, 2024. Radiology Business. Accessed August 25, 2024.

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Red Leg in the Heartland of America: A Rural Physician’s Approach to the Patient with a Potential DVT

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However, duplex ultrasonography may not be readily available at all times in rural or critical access facilities. Thrombosis in the emergency department: use of a clinical diagnosis model to safely avoid the need for urgent radiological investigation. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164(22):2477-2482. doi:10.1001/archinte.164.22.2477