An excellent article by the Atlantic’s Marion Renault. Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin
The misperception that paramedics are merely ambulance drivers is everyone’s problem.
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UK: Firefighter recently diagnosed with Crohns Disease and COVID prepare for charity walk despite serious health diagnosis’s
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An increasing prevalence of risk factors with older age and higher BMI suggests that preventive strategies should be initiated in younger firefighters and aggressively promoted or man-dated throughout firefighters’ careers
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A great article on JEMS by DR. Contreras remind us that we are in it together and need one another to survive.
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PLOS One Journal: The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to provide updated prevalence estimates for depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, benefitting from the inclusion of studies published in Chinese.
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