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The 50-year Failure of American Health Care

Sensible Medicine

we’ve poisoned the food supply, engineered highly-addictive additives, and coated food with pesticides. It results in the suffering of millions of children, fewer eligible military personnel (a national security risk), and a heavy financial cost burdening every family and business in America. In the U.S., What are we doing?

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Why Pediatric Rare Medicine is Like Timeshare Sales

Sensible Medicine

Your supervisor says, “Look, the plant has some similarities to poison ivy. When we tested a treatment for this rash in mice, a specific prescription strength poison ivy cream cleared it right up. But this cream is not FDA approved for “freaky plant rash“, it is only approved for poison ivy.

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Episode 28 - Depressed and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department: An Evidence-Based Approach

EB Medicine

Nachi: Let’s talk first about special populations - the only one we will discuss this month is military veterans. In one study, sending a brief postcard 9 times a year with a quick “hope things are well” type message to patients discharged after deliberate self-harm reduced self-poisonings by 50%. More on that in a few minutes though.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Introduction: My first professional ambulance call was for three victims of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Their focus was on developing a refined technique suitable for mass usage by the military who funded them and by the lay public. Before the romantic portion could begin, the cat became ill.