Healthcare Update Satellite — 09-04-2013

Look for more updates on my other blog at DrWhitecoat.com American Medical News ceasing publication due to decreasing ad sales. Now focusing on online and e-mail publications. Too fat to rescue? Some patients weighing more than 350 pounds (and even some weighing more than 250 pounds) are being denied air transport due to their weight. Other services are spending millions of dollars to purchase helicopters that can carry patients up to 650 pounds. What happens with a 750 pound patient, then? University of Pennsylvania adding metal detectors to its emergency departments. They reportedly aren’t used in emergencies, though. Young California girls end up in emergency department, then in burn unit after getting lime juice on their skin and then going out into the sun. All apparently suffered from phytophotodermatitis. They’re healing well, but can’t go out into the sun for 6 months and all have scars to their faces, torsos, and extremities. I’m not even going to post a link, but I’m having difficulty determining whether it is appropriate for a chain of acute care clinics … in Florida … to be advertising how it will provide “stronger” treatment for painful conditions and “emergency pain relief” for patients who don’t want to wait in emergency departments. Jesse Jackson Jr will be in jail, but receiving almost $150,000/year in federal pension and disability payments for his mood disorder. Kid has minor blunt head injury? Observation in the ED significantly les...
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