Sunday Silliness: Easter candy edition

by dr-exmedic

Courtesy Reason, I bring you the results of the Third Annual Washington Post Peeps Diorama contest.

Contagion

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It’s kind of unusual for an EMS gathering to be a risk factor for catching measles, but that’s exactly what happened at an EMS conference in PA last month–one with which I’m familiar, incidentally (and usually, the diseases attendees return with are just as reportable to the county health department as measles but much more personal). As much as [...]

Delicious irony

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Today, I attended a lecture on the effects of obesity on the survival of trauma patients.  They heavily advertised not only the seminar, but the fact that they were serving lunch.

Priming the doc

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It turns out that ED staff really do listen to medics bringing in patients.

Art and EMS intersect

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Art students should never be allowed to design real medical equipment, but it does make for some fun “art.”

Where you shuffle off this mortal coil

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There are more data collection types in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosophy.