Cancer Patients Often Excluded in U.S. State Crisis-standards-of-care Guidelines
U.S. state crisis-standards-of-care (CSC) guidelines, which allocate scarce health resources among patients, often deprioritize or exclude cancer…
Disaster Medicine
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Cancer Patients Often Excluded in U.S. State Crisis-standards-of-care Guidelines
U.S. state crisis-standards-of-care (CSC) guidelines, which allocate scarce health resources among patients, often deprioritize or exclude cancer... -
Hurricane Florence and the Use of Telemedicine
Hurricane Florence struck North Carolina as a Category 1 storm on Sept. 14, 2018, bringing with it... -
Notes From Emergency Physician Working When the Camp Fire Threatened Hospital
The town of Paradise, California, burned to the ground on Nov. 8, 2018, in the Camp Fire....
Hurricane Florence and the Use of Telemedicine
Hurricane Florence struck North Carolina as a Category 1 storm on Sept. 14, 2018, bringing with it…
Notes From Emergency Physician Working When the Camp Fire Threatened Hospital
The town of Paradise, California, burned to the ground on Nov. 8, 2018, in the Camp Fire….
Laying the Groundwork for Effective Disaster Response: An Interview with Dr. Robert Kadlec
The nation’s health care system is facing a growing number of actual and potential public health disasters,…
Proactive Approach Urged to Chemical-Weapons Attacks
Physicians and health care systems need to establish strategies for recognizing and responding to the unlikely occurrence…
Miami Among Cities at Risk from Yellow Fever Spread
Miami is at risk of a deadly yellow fever outbreak because the disease could thrive there but…
Gunshot Victim Share Experiences from Las Vegas Mass Shooting
On Oct. 1, 2017, attendees of the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas were…
An Emergency Medicine Resident’s Journey Through the Devastation of Hurricane Maria
There I was, landing in a town cut off from the outside world by Mother Nature. The…
Emergency Physician and Victim Share Experiences from Las Vegas Mass Shooting
On Oct. 1, 2017, attendees of the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas were…
Medical Improvisation and the Media
Medical improvisation is a subject with which I have had a lot of experience throughout my career….