In several recent columns, I have drawn attention to the problem of sun-induced skin injury-surprisingly, the major cause of death…
One of the points I regularly make in wilderness medicine talks, courses, and columns is the importance of drowning as…
One of the ironies of modern medicine is that it sometimes seems that little attention is devoted to the things…
“Wilderness medicine” is about a lot more than splinting complex fractures on steep slopes in a snowstorm. Much of the…
Although the first snowfall has hit the Adirondacks, my current “Adirondoc” column is on heat illnesses. It seemed timely because…
As I write this, it is 48 degrees in the southern Adirondacks. Yet, the ice is off of the lakes,…
ALTHOUGH MOST Adirondack lakes are frozen as I write this column, they will be approaching swimmable by the time you…
IN DECADES OF RUNNING, hiking, and climbing, I have had only one ankle sprain. I was running on a dark…
IN MANY OUTDOOR SPORTS equipment malfunction or misuse is a major cause of injury. This is generally not the case…
THIS COLUMN’S TITLE is one of the pithy aphorisms I learned from my medical school surgery professor, the acclaimed trauma…