Breathalyzers: Not Just for Blood Alcohol Levels
In continual efforts to improve diagnostic and screening methods, a new emerging tool that is quickly gaining momentum is the “specialized breathalyzer.” An instrument…
Read MoreIn continual efforts to improve diagnostic and screening methods, a new emerging tool that is quickly gaining momentum is the “specialized breathalyzer.” An instrument…
Read MoreIn July, we examined the choice of a physician who is confronted with possible child abuse. Let’s take a second look: You are a…
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Read MoreRecently, I came across an article by Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, from the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU School of Medicine who…
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Read MoreAs an incoming medical student, there are many acronyms and abbreviations that you are suddenly expected to know on top of the already impossible…
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Read MoreLast year on June 9th, California Governor Jerry Brown gave terminally ill patients in California with less than six months to live the ability…
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