June 2008 - Wilderness Medicine

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Laceration Repair in the Wilderness

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog . I'm delighted to present another guest post from Jeremy Joslin, M.D., entitled "Laceration Repair in the Wilderness": The Scenario It always happens...

Published 06-24-2008 10:16 PM by Outdoor Ed

Filed under: wilderness medicine, cut, laceration
Disinfect, or drink?

We all need to drink water in the backcountry, but do we need to disinfect it? The latest edition of the Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (Vol 19, Num 2) has an article looking at risk factors for contaminated water in the Sierra Nevada...

Published 06-11-2008 4:11 PM by Tod Schimelpfenig
Treatment Principles

In Dr. Jerome Groopman’s “How Doctors Think” there is a tale of medical students from two different schools being told that two entirely different approaches to a problem are the gold standard. As they started to practice medicine they...

Published 06-06-2008 1:50 PM by Tod Schimelpfenig