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Note: This is a true incident. Though all characters in the story are anonymized, they are recognizable to the knowledgeable based on the events portrayed. That they have been anonymized reflects propriety rather than conformity to any hidebound traditions.
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John Deer and Jane Doe are part of a small team of medical personnel doing voluntary work [...]

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I got an email from Mari (M4ID_Mari in twitter) on behalf of the WHO’s Emergencies and Humanitarian Action team in South East Asia, based in New Delhi about the WHO’s first social media driven effort, aiming to engage 1 million people in the issue of hospitals safe in disasters.
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Floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones - the WHO [...]

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Via this tweet by @thestudentdoc.

[Raphael was alluding to these two posts]
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What makes a 300-year-old pocket watch tick? : Nature News

State-of-the-art X-ray scans have revealed the internal mechanisms of a corroded, barnacle-covered pocket watch recovered from a seventeenth-century wreck. The watch looks little more than a lump of rock from the outside, but the scans show [...]

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Note: Though this is a medical post that concerns hospital care in the USA, I believe the issues covered in these videos are universally applicable to hospitals and patients all over the world. I urge everyone, especially those visitors who are not from the USA to view the videos.
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In a series of three short [...]

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Retained knife blade: an unusual cause for headache following massive alcohol intake. (via precordialthump, dublindoc & Mind Hacks. Emphases mine)

Massive alcohol intake usually resolves in a banal headache. We report a case of a patient presenting with acute alcohol intoxication in which the ensuing “hangover” was due to a knife blade deeply retained in the [...]

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via Bertalan Meskó at ScienceRoll: Swine Flu: Follow Online!.
As swine flu sparks global concern, we can follow the cases and the news online quite easily. Maybe swine flu will be the first global disease that we can really follow minute by minute online. I’m not even surprised there is a swine flu kit you can [...]

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via fnyc

[Both Images are from here & are linked there]
I guess this is not what it means to hit the nail on the head!
See more amazing radiographs (NO. They’re not x-rays!) and CT scans in this gallery.
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Whistleblower: A lost bid to control health costs: (via this tweet from Robbo* aka BiteTheDust)

Alexandria Cody went to the hospital on Christmas Eve with excruciating pain in her ribs. She and her husband, David, left the hospital stinging with frustration over their failed effort to control the costs of their care. The couple have been [...]