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“Well, that patient was a load! Maybe if they’d do something other than sit around eating fast food, it wouldn’t be so bad!”
I cringe every time I hear this from an EMS provider, which is more often than I’d like. I bite my lip so I don’t say, “Have you looked in the mirror?” Sadly, unless things change, who do they think will be that “load” on the litter in a few years?
If you’re new to EMS, or even if you’re not, you will quickly learn providers are expected to be in the very best of health, physically, emotionally, and socially. The public does not care if you don’t feel well or are tired; when they call 9-1-1, you are their only hope and help, so you want to make sure you are healthy enough to handle that call.
The Forever Disease: How Covid-19 Became a Chronic Condition
Thousands of people have been suffering a slew of crazy postinfection syndromes for months and there’s no end in sight.
Details from a long hauler’s life; bottom center: PET/MRI brain image of an infected SARS-COV-2 patient.
Covid-19 is a trickster. Those who have lived with it the longest often describe the disease as if it knows what mischief it’s making. Miel Singletary Schultz, a 48-year-old “long hauler” and former sailing crew worker in San Diego, thought she had experienced every possible symptom when in October her skin began exuding tiny yellow crystals all over her body; a fellow long hauler suggested it might be uremic frost, the manifestation of a kidney disease. The skin discharge was not the most debilitating of her dozen-plus symptoms, which included headaches, nerve pain, cognitive dysfunction, hair loss, constipation, and extreme weight loss, but this one seemed especially sinister. It suggeste
He came to international attention when he led a team of medical practitioners to perform surgery on a baby in-utero in a Texas hospital in 2016 and now Oluyinka O. Olutoye, MD, PhD, has been appointed Surgeon-In-Chief at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the U.S.
Olutoye co-led a team of 21 doctors that removed a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a large tumour that grows on the tailbone of a fetus, and then returned the 23-week-old fetus to the mother’s womb to world acclaim.
For the surgery, the mother and fetus were given general anaesthesia and the part of the fetus’ body where the tumour was attached was taken out of the uterus.
A new study observed that people, on average, can take about 30 minutes longer to fall asleep and sleep 50 minutes less on nights leading up to a full moon.