got public health?

Posted on July 27, 2009 by ajrosh

Public health and emergency medicine—are these really two separate entities?
Some might say that the emergency department acts as the safety net for the United States healthcare system. After all, there is no question that many patients use the emergency room as their source of primary care medicine. However, does this place emergency medicine as a [...]

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got public health?

Posted on April 28, 2009 by ajrosh

Global Fever…
Being covered 24/7 by news networks is the latest health scare…swine flu. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a phase 4 pandemic alert (confirmed person-to-person spread of a new influenza virus able to cause “community-level” outbreaks”).  As I watch the news to try and understand what is going on, I’m given images [...]

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Posted on February 22, 2009 by ajrosh

Feb-stache-uary
Folks….it’s February. For some, it signifies the recognition of historical figures in Black History. For others, it is counting down to Feb 15th when Valentine’s Day will be officially done for the year. For us, it marks the beginning of Feb-stache-uary.In its second year in existence, our fellow male residents band together for one month [...]

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got public health?

Posted on January 5, 2009 by ajrosh

No Love in the Time of Cholera
I was raised on drinking tap water. To this day, I still don’t understand why my California relatives are willing to spend money to drink bottled water. Evidently, they are not alone…..grocery stores and filled with complete aisles of multiple brands of bottled water, and now flavored water. However, [...]

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Posted on November 24, 2008 by ajrosh

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got public health?

Posted on October 10, 2008 by ajrosh

Hello! Welcome to the Emergency Medicine and Public Health section of Receiving. The goal of this section is to put forward public health topics and generate thoughts and discussions about these topics.   All are welcome to contribute!  The more input from people, the more we learn.
Elections and the ED
It is nearly impossible to turn [...]

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