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Urgent Care
Types of Extremity Injuries
Fractured means broken. Whether you have a complete or a partial fracture, you have a broken bone. A bone may be completely fractured or partially fractured in any number of ways (spiral, chip, midshaft, growth plate).
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"Emergency Room Visits Cost You More Money" - PEIA
"Cost alone should hold down ER use to emergency situations", says PEIA Member Services Administrator Gloria Long. "PPB Plan members can see their doctor during regular office hours or use an urgent care facility and pay just a $15 copay plus deductible and 20% coinsurance on any required tests or lab work.
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Crisis In The ER -
How Urgent Care Practices Take Off The Pressure
Masked doctors work frantically over a dying man, a car accident victim in Fairfax County, Virginia. An emergency medicine resident, with beads of sweat standing out on her face, works intently over a patient. A physician's assistant injects an anesthetic into the spine of a woman whose face is contorted with pain.
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Fact Sheet: Safety Belt Use
Of the 31,904 passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2003, 56 percent were not wearing a safety belt.
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Tick Tips
Spring is a time when many people spend more time outdoors, so it's important to remember how to prevent tick bites.
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Heartburn - Losing Sleep over it
Recurrent heartburn, or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), no matter how amusing the old Alka Seltzer "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" commercials may have been, is no laughing matter.
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The Power of Tea
Ever since a mob of irate American colonists threw a few tons of British tea into Boston harbor, Americans have shown a distinct preference for Juan Valdez over King George.
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Spring, Sports, Safety -
A Parent's and Trainer's Guide for Children's Activity
You may recognize this scenario. The action on the playing field is suddenly halted. A young athlete is wincing in pain as trainer and coach run to her side. Your stomach drops. Is it your child? Finally, she hobbles off the field and into the locker room, escorted by her anxious parents and trainer.
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Emergency Department Patients with Unmet Substance Abuse Treatment Need Incur Higher Health Care Costs
Morgantown, W.V. - Researchers led by Ian Rockett, PhD, from West Virginia University's Department of Community Medicine and Center for Rural Emergency Medicine found that emergency department patients with unmet substance abuse need are 81 percent more likely to be admitted during their emergency visit and 46 percent more likely to have reported making at least one emergency department visit in the previous 12 months.
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Hope that Athletes with Temporary Paralysis can
Return to Sports
Morgantown, W.V. – The athlete lays on a field, unmoving. As the crowd watches silently, the player is wrapped securely in a neck brace, loaded on to a stretcher, wheeled to an ambulance, and carried off the field of play.
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