Emergency Medicine

Job For A Day: Getting A Taste Of Medicine (Leesburg Today)

21 Nov 2008

With the smell of baby powder in the air and the sound of monitors whirring, a group of juniors from Loudoun County high schools were gathered around a bassinet containing a baby who had been born just two hours earlier.

Despite National Guidelines, Private Insurers, Emergency Rooms, Federal & State Agencies Fail To Routinely Test For HIV (Medical News Today)

21 Nov 2008

While the U.S. AIDS epidemic simmers largely unnoticed by most Americans, a failure to widely implement routine HIV testing continues to fuel its spread, HIV researchers and experts said today. Almost 60,000 Americans were infected with HIV last year, and, nationwide, 50-to-70 percent of new sexually transmitted infections are spread by people who do not know they are infected.

Dollar drinks costing taxpayers: doctor (News 95.7)

21 Nov 2008

The head of emergency medicine for the Capital district says the government is making a mistake by allowing the sales of dollar drinks. Dr. John Ross says it's socially irresponsible for bars to promote alcoholic drinks for just a buck to young people.