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Friday Reflection 31: Senses, Memories, and Medicine

Sensible Medicine

i] My third year of medical school began with a night in the operating room with a man with an aorto-enteric fistula. That night introduced me to the smell of melena — a smell that I now can recognize even rooms away on a hospital floor, and which also takes me back to that New York Hospital operating room in 1991.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 3/11/24 (Issue #33)

PulmCCM

Ascension is a $27 billion, 140-hospital conglomerate operating in 19 states—the third largest system in the U.S There was no difference in rate of discharge to hospice (6.8% for likelier hospice discharge after automatic palliative care consultation. by some accounts (after HCA and the VA).

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Friday Reflection 31: Senses, Memories, and Medicine

Sensible Medicine

i] My third year of medical school began with a night in the operating room with a man with an aorto-enteric fistula. That night introduced me to the smell of melena — a smell that I now can recognize even rooms away on a hospital floor, and which also takes me back to that New York Hospital operating room in 1991.

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"The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial." [Hamlet]

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

" [Coroners Society] King Richard I (the Lionheart) needed vast sums of money for the Third Crusade, operation of the kingdom, and for his ransom fro m Duke Leopold of Austria. Gentle Care Hospice advice (based on Los Angeles County, CA) upon " Death in the Home." " January 2005; Last updated May 16, 2005.

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American Physican Partners’ Closing Raises Questions

ACEP Now

one of the country’s largest physician staffing firms, announced on July 17 through an email to its employees its intention to cease operations July 31, the chilling effects were felt across a workforce of 2,500 APP-employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians working at the 153 hospital emergency departments it managed in 18 states.