emergency medicine
noun
: a medical specialty concerned with the care and treatment of acutely ill or injured patients who need immediate medical attention
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Zoom in: The Cook Children's hospitals in Fort Worth and Prosper have been slammed with RSV and walking pneumonia cases this fall, Taylor Louden, director of pediatric emergency medicine at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, tells Axios.
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Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
Here are a few tactics that Forbes contributor Dr. Jesse Pines, a practicing physician and professor of emergency medicine at Drexel University, recommends for reducing microplastic consumption at home:
Avoid heating plastic bowls or cups, including steamy takeout served in plastic containers.
—Leigh Cuen, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
For instance, emergency medicine physicians at one health system must click 14 times to order Tylenol—that’s a lot.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
According to Christopher Gaw, MD, an emergency medicine pediatrician with Nationwide Children's and one of the study authors, delta-8 THC exposures were significantly lower among states where delta-8 was banned.
—Sherri Gordon, Clc, Parents, 13 Sep. 2024
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Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
Here are a few tactics that Forbes contributor Dr. Jesse Pines, a practicing physician and professor of emergency medicine at Drexel University, recommends for reducing microplastic consumption at home:
Avoid heating plastic bowls or cups, including steamy takeout served in plastic containers.
—Leigh Cuen, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
For instance, emergency medicine physicians at one health system must click 14 times to order Tylenol—that’s a lot.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
According to Christopher Gaw, MD, an emergency medicine pediatrician with Nationwide Children's and one of the study authors, delta-8 THC exposures were significantly lower among states where delta-8 was banned.
—Sherri Gordon, Clc, Parents, 13 Sep. 2024
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“Emergency medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20medicine. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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