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Fortunately, fetal trauma in pregnancy is uncommon. The most common causes of blunt fetal trauma, in contrast to penetrating injuries such as stabbings or gunshot wounds, are motor-vehicle...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2015 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
Do you know how to identify the symptoms of a heart attack? If not, learning them may be an important step to saving your life or the life of someone you love. Coronary heart disease remains the...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2015 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
According to public-health experts, we are in the middle of one of the worst influenza epidemics in the last five years. As of this writing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has...
DATE: Jan. 4, 2015 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
Occasionally, I have described my career in emergency medicine as enduring 30-plus years of sleep depravation. Actually, it’s longer than that. In college, I worked several summers in a...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2014 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
The development of medications to treat a broad range of diseases and unpleasant symptoms has accelerated in the past several decades. If you think about it, a century ago, with the exception of...
DATE: Dec. 21, 2014 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
When I was in medical training, I had the unfortunate experience of participating in the care of a small child who developed a serious bacterial infection caused by common bacterium known as H....
DATE: Dec. 14, 2014 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
One joke told many times in the emergency room goes something like this: ER doc to patient: “Sir, you seem to be pretty sick – headache, low fever, chills, malaise, nausea, aches all over – could...
DATE: Nov. 23, 2014 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
Researchers have announced a scientific breakthrough, which might possibly lead to a cure for Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus is a disorder that results in elevation of the level of...
DATE: Nov. 16, 2014 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
Let’s face it: The human body doesn’t come with an instruction book. Yet, it is one of the most complex machines in the universe. Machines break for lots of reasons. But, ask any mechanic, and...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2014 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
Food poisoning has grabbed plenty of attention lately and ranks second only to the common cold in frequency of occurrence. The very young, the chronically ill and the aged are the most seriously...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2014 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
I have been contemplating how to address the topic of Ebola in the context of the La Plata Health Watch. The fact of the matter is that the current pace of the outbreak makes it something of a...
DATE: Oct. 19, 2014 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
If you are at least old enough to remember Captain Kangaroo or Mister Rogers, then you probably remember when chicken pox was a right of passage for young children. When I was sick and covered...
DATE: Oct. 5, 2014 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
