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Cold Temperatures Greet Emergency Physician Spending Winter in Antarctica

By Kenneth V. Iserson, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM | on March 15, 2016 | 0 Comment
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Cold Temperatures Greet Emergency Physician Spending Winter in Antarctica

Happily, the wind had not yet picked up enough to cover one entire side of our building or fill the clinic’s entryway with snow. We crunched easily across the ice as we walked through town, grateful for the thin gray light that was still available for a few hours each day. That won’t last long for, as they say in Game of Thrones, “winter is coming.”

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ACEP Now: Vol 35 – No 03 – March 2016

Dr. Iserson is professor emeritus of emergency medicine at The University of Arizona in Tucson.

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