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Defining Emergency

StorytellERdoc

I originally wrote this piece in December, 2010. When a critical illness or injury occurs, then, we should all be thankful that we live within a society where emergent, life-saving medical care is available. Please feel free to share your thoughts and experiences. Broken bones. A heart attack. Respiratory distress. A cardiac arrest.

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Problem Representation

The Clinical Problem Solvers

It allows clinicians to distill the case into its most relevant features, which facilitates efficient diagnostic schema and illness script selection. By extracting key case details and translating them into generalizable terms, you can more effectively link the case in front of you to your own bank of diagnostic schemas and illness scripts.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) prostate cancer database found that among men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer (based on pathology and a PSA level lower than 20 ng/mL), active surveillance or watchful waiting increased overall from 5% in 2010 to 12.3% and 6.1%, respectively).

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

Relying solely on permanent staff can lead to periods of over- or under-staffing, as patient volumes fluctuate due to various factors: Seasonal illnesses (e.g., Locum tenens providers can even be brought on on short notice, meaning you’ll never be caught off guard again.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Focus on the Community While the health sector is where illness and ailments are often treated, a person’s health largely manifests outside of the health sector and is impacted by their community and environment. 2010 Oct;71(8):1390-8. Epub 2010 Aug 11. 2020;396(10249):451-453. Soc Sci Med. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.030.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

A 2010 research study found that treating two patients per bottle instead of one would decrease plastic waste by approximately 12.69 Eye 24 , 361–363 (2010). From rising asthma rates to heat-related illnesses, climate change is already harming the most vulnerable among us. tons in the United Kingdom each year. 3 “Each U.S.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. Rather they’re Ill, maybe they’re aging unsuccessfully, but never really resilient. How do you maintain successful aging, which is often free of disease or illness or disability? Anyone with neurologic illnesses, I think all of you know, too much socialization is like, stop.

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