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What To Do If You Get Sick on Vacation
Getting sick while on vacation is more than just an inconvenience — it can be a confusing and vulnerable experience. Whether you are visiting a theme park in Orlando or traveling abroad, finding yourself hundreds of miles away from your primary doctor makes navigating a medical emergency feel daunting.
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Mysterious Bruises, Night Sweats — Is It Blood Cancer?
Maybe you’ve had a bruise that appeared easily, and you can’t recall having bumped into anything that would have caused it. Perhaps you noticed a swollen lymph node that remained that way, even after a few weeks. Each ailment is easy enough to ignore, but if you’ve felt feverish as well, even experiencing night sweats, it may be time to visit your doctor. These symptoms can precede the onset of blood cancer.
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New NIH-Funded Initiative Will Help ORMC Advance Emergency Medicine Research
Trauma is the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 1 to 46, and on average there are about 141 million visits to the emergency room, 40 million of which are injury-related.
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Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Skip Your Annual Physical
Life gets so busy that it’s easy to forget to schedule your annual physical. And you’re healthy, so why bother – right? That’s dangerous thinking. Regular checkups with your doctor are important to prevent and detect chronic illness.
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Chemo Brain—Is it Really a Thing?
Feeling disorganized? Foggy? Forgetful? It’s no coincidence that these changes in memory and concentration overlap with cancer treatment and even diagnosis. This feeling is commonly referred to as “chemo brain,” and even though this mental cloudiness may not have a specific cause, it is real.
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Hospital Ratings: Behind the Numbers
With their wealth of statistics and unfamiliar terms, hospital ratings can be a complicated web for healthcare consumers to untangle. So, when it’s time to decide where you want to have a non-emergency surgery or treatment performed, you might be inclined to simply go wherever your doctor recommends. However, depending on your health insurance, you may have multiple hospitals to choose from.
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A Day in the Life of a Trauma Surgeon
As a physician, working at a trauma center can be one of the most fast-paced jobs you can have in medicine, and that’s a big part of what I find most rewarding. I love being able to make an impact and seeing the results fairly quickly. I see people every day who, when they come in, are severely injured, sometimes critically injured and even near death. These days, we’re really blessed to have all the technology we have, which lets us intervene and hopefully treat them successfully.
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Why Movember?
Millions of men across the world are looking hairier than usual this month.
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Part 2: 5 Common Misconceptions About Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S., but there are still so many misconceptions about how to prevent it. From how often and when to apply sunscreen to understanding the dangers of prolonged sun exposure, many people aren’t aware of their skin cancer risks.
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How This 60-Year-Old Trauma Procedure Could Save More Lives
As a Level One Trauma Center, we help people with severe injuries every day.
