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Understand the scope of alcohol and cocaine use and their effects on ED visits; Comprehend the various routes of administration and effects of alcohol ingestion; Demonstrate knowledge of cocaine use and overdose interventions; Understand recent ‘designer drugs’ and chemically modified narcotics. Drug overdoses are routinely seen in trauma bays and emergency departments worldwide. The increasingly complex methods employed to develop and consume drugs make detection of side effects and potential interactions with other drugs difficult. Common substances of abuse are now being ingested in alternative, more hazardous ways, while designer drugs are being chemically modified to enhance their euphoric effects. These various modifications have rendered modern drug screening tests almost obsolete, placing medical professionals in a formidable position. ....
Are frum doctors fated to become an endangered species? An investigative report into a looming problem Chana Weinstock Neuberger, MD, a medical oncologist in Baltimore, learned many things in medical school. But during her first week of residency, she heard an unfamiliar term from fellow doctors that never appeared in the curriculum. “Are you Shabbotaged this month?” she heard one asking another. In her internal medicine residency program at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, NY, which arranged shifts in order to accommodate the shomer Shabbos doctors, their colleagues who took the Saturday calls instead were “Shabbotaged,” a portmanteau of “Shabbos” and “sabotage” in other words, sabotaged by Shabbos. ....