Healthcare Update Satellite — 10-13-2014

More medical news from around the web on my other blog over at DrWhitecoat.com So what are medical providers supposed to do if they are faced with a potential or actual Ebola victim? Who knows? Here’s a case you don’t see every day … Patient transferred to University of Alabama Medical Center after having what was thought to be a hand grenade embedded in his thigh. He wasn’t allowed in the emergency department, but was instead treated in an ambulance in the parking lot for more than six hours as a military consultant advised medical personnel how to remove it. Eventually was determined to be the 40 mm ammunition for a smoke grenade that reportedly was embedded in his leg when the smoke grenade went off. I’m not sure I would have been treating him in an ambulance in the parking lot, though. Gasoline tends to make explosions worse, not better. Medicare enrollment can be so difficult that even a journalist who has been writing about Medicare for almost 40 years needs help from an insurance expert to understand the process. Open enrollment starts soon, so get those appointments for experts now. Patients gone wild. Arizona schmuck steals an ambulance parked outside a hospital, takes it on a joy ride, refuses to pull over for police … and then parks the ambulance outside his home. I can just see him saying “it wasn’t me” to the police as they arrested him. You think you’re good at multitasking? You aren’t. In fa...
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