Away from Internet until mid-August

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Adventure Doc

I will be with limited internet access until mid-August, as I am traveling/working. Thanks for the understanding with a lack of updates and posts, but I will have very limited web access.  There will be, hopefully, a lot to post about when I get back! adventuredoc

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Portable Field Hospitals

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Adventure Doc

I am very excited to write that a paper I co-authored has finally been published! “An Introduction to Portable Field Hospitals” can be seen in the journal Rural and Remote Health. The subject of portable field hospitals has obvious effects on “campaign style” expeditions, humanitarian responses to emergencies, remote primary care and anybody else looking [...]

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Leishmania in Europe

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Adventure Doc

When a group of travelers get together, there are a lot of stories and helpful tips shared. A favorite cafe, a hotel with a great location and places to visit are always on the top of the list. I rarely hear people discussing leishmaniasis and this is the point of a recent article in the Emerging [...]

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Future Considerations 2

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Adventure Doc

I have been giving the concept of travel medicine, wilderness medicine and remote medicine a bit of thought lately.  Building on my previous post that discusses some of the “overlap” between these fields of medicine, I wanted to look at some specific examples and build my case for the statement that these specialities are converging, or [...]

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