Healthcare Update Satellite — 06-10-2014

This study found no benefit in doing so. However, note that the study population was limited to patients with a “bending or twisting injury.” Patients were excluded if they had suspected nonmusculoskeletal etiology, direct trauma, motor deficits, or local occupational medicine program visits. I’m still giving steroids for exacerbations of chronic pain and for radiculopathy. Potential patients gone wild … Colorado man shot in emergency department parking lot after “confronting” police with a knife. Lesson #1: Don’t run around in a parking lot wielding a knife Lesson #2: Don’t use a knife to threaten a man with a gun Speaking about guns … you know how the incidence of gun-related deaths is increasing over the years? Well it isn’t. A Pew Research study (.pdf link) shows that firearm homicides dropped by 50% and non-fatal firearm crime has dropped 75% between 1993 and 2010. 56% of people think that gun crimes have gone up in the past 20 years. Wonder why accurate facts like this aren’t being publicized in the evening news? Woman lays dead in a Paris emergency department for six hours before someone checks on her and realizes that she is cold. Unidentified French official is matter of fact about the death. “People die every day in the emergency room.” Fortunately, marijuana is a harmless drug … NY Times reporter writes about how she laid in a “hallucinatory state” for eight hours and t...
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