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Chapter 13b. Planning a Future and Making a Discovery

Graduate school is a lot more than school. Yes, there are classes, and yes a degree is involved and there is most definitely tuition being paid for class credit. But graduate school is most definitely work—it is a full time job. It involves deadlines, duties, bosses and a small subsistence stipend, which is aptly named. [...]

Chapter 13a. Planning a Future and Making a Discovery

For a poor graduate student, vacations were a luxury that was hard to afford, although they are something everyone needs for mental health. Ann said that if we did not get away together soon, one of us was going to go nuts. We planned an affordable 5- or 6-day getaway (Thursday to Tuesday or Wednesday) [...]

A Patient’s family just needed information; even speculation.

Please pardon my question to you about this as I’m sure you get many off the cuff type of neurology questions ……. but my father is dying so I was curious…

Medical Practitioners and Ambulance Personnel

Dear EMS practitioners, I apologize in advance if some of this is indelicate, but it is one person’s opinion and is intended to advance the profession. Yours truly, Joe Clark Prehospital care is medical treatment and care that is given by ambulance personnel, often in an ambulance. EMTs and paramedics provide a wide range services [...]

Publishing contracts for dummies

When I write an article, accepting no payment, while trying to educate medical professionals in saving lives; I should not be expected to take on an unlimited financial liability.

Geeks, Research and Ambulances

The National Institutes of Health fund about 40,000 grants to do medical research. Of those funded projects only 14 have to do with medical research in the pre-hospital setting. This is just sad. Over 50% of all medical emergencies that come to hospitals arrive via the ambulance. Paramedics, firefighters, EMTs, Police and a host of [...]