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...That’s why everyone under the age of 65 is routinely tested at the University of Chicago hospital emergency room — no matter why they came in — says Dr Kimberly Stanford, an ER physician....
...Chris Newton had only just finished his medical residency in Michigan when in 2002 he joined Emergency Physicians Medical Group (EPMG), which ran the emergency room at St Joseph’s Hospital in Ann Arbor....
...The root of the pain began three years ago, when the emergency room physician, Stanford Law School graduate and Beverly Hills mother took on the medical establishment....
...“People distrust the authorities,” said Octavian Jurma, a Romanian physician and health statistician. “Nobody cares about the rules.”...
...Michael Granston, deputy assistant attorney-general for the justice department’s civil decision, called the opioid crisis a “public health emergency”....
...The emergency room physician-turned-health department official is just one of many public health leaders in Houston raising the alarm as the city becomes one of America’s new Covid hotspots....
...“Testing is in extremely short supply across the entire state, and across the entire country,” said Dr Steve Clifford, a local physician and the city’s mayor....
...Staff were seconded from other parts of County Hall to help. “We got a forestry official, someone from the water authority, and even an employee of the state-run casino,” Hierl says....
...It alleges that Purdue marketed the painkillers to vulnerable people, including the elderly, and encouraged physicians to prescribe them for long periods of time....
...In a poll this year for the American College of Emergency Physicians, 42 per cent of emergency room doctors said they expect patient visits to increase if the federal subsidies are eliminated....
...We all understand that we are in a new fiscal landscape and there will continue to be challenges,” says Colonel George “Ned” Appenzeller, an emergency physician who recently became commander of the army...
...Ed Emmett is a Republican county judge in Harris County, which has a population of 4.2m....
...insurance – there is little that an emergency room physician can do to help someone suffering from dental pain....
...It will also make it easier for physicians to do their jobs....
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