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It seems wrong to cut down redwood trees. And I think that the medical excuse is just that, an excuse. It is pretty likely that the trees were in place before these people bought their homes, and now they've decided, for one reason or another, they want more lawn, more space to expand their houses, or whatever, so the trees have to go. These trees should not be just a convenience for homeowners' whims. It's as ridiculous as someone moving into a home by the railroad tracks and then complaining about the noise from the trains (although that happens too). The redwoods were there first. If you didn't like them, you shouldn't have bought the house. If you planted them, well, live with your decision. Kudos to Palo Alto's Emslie and Doktor for holding firm to keep redwood trees.
Emergency breakthrough
THE majority of accident victims will be treated locally under a groundbreaking move to set up a new rural emergency medical training centre in Warrnambool and Portland. The centre, the first of its kind in regional Australia, would be run by an elite emergency medicine specialist, who would be in charge of emergency departments at both Warrnambool and Portland hospitals. The yet-to-be-appointed expert would also train students enrolled at Deakin University's new medical school and oversee nationally important research into rural emergency medicine. Details of the Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine were revealed yesterday in Portland, which in recent years has struggled to provide adequate emergency medical services. Alcoa Australia, Portland's biggest employer, announced it would provide $100,000 a year for three years to help fund it.
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MOUNT VERNON — The pre-Thanksgiving rash of warm weather gave rise to the swarming of Asian lady beetles in some parts of Central Ohio this week, although their numbers are generally much lower this year than they have been in previous years. "I’ve seen them in years past cover the whole side of a building," said Rick Amore of Helmick’s Exterminating in Mount Vernon. He said that in large numbers, the beetles can be very stressful. One particular case he had involved trying to get rid of a nest of yellow jackets, which were surrounded by thousands of Asian beetles. He couldn’t tell at times whether he was being bitten or being stung. Over the last 20 years, multi-colored Asian beetles (Harmonia axyridis) have become the dominant species of ladybug in North America.
CT Scans To Determine Heart Disease In The Emergency Room
In the future, patients who arrive at a hospital Emergency Department complaining of chest pain may be diagnosed with a sophisticated CT scan. If the diagnosis is negative, the patient can go home�"and the total time at the hospital will be much shorter than it is today.
That is the theory behind a study being presented at the RSNA (Abstract ID: 5009389; Monday, November 26, 3:10 p.m.) by Rajan Agarwal, M.D., a resident in Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
"The cost of chest pain triage (where patients in the Emergency Department are prioritized based on their symptoms) and management has been estimated to be as high as $8 billion annually, with most patients ultimately not having to remain in the hospital. Therefore," Dr. Agarwal states, "there is a tremendous opportunity to reduce health care costs if we can demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of this procedure with low-risk patients who go to the Emergency Department."
Further, this reduced length of stay improves resource utilization by decreasing costs, improving inpatient bed shortages and reducing crowding in the Emergency Department.
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