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Topic: Environmental Injuries

Sun and Snow

February 1, 2023 adirondoc

In several recent columns, I have drawn attention to the problem of sun-induced skin injury-surprisingly, the major cause of death…

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Sad reminders about drowning

August 14, 2022 Tom Welch

One of the points I regularly make in wilderness medicine talks, courses, and columns is the importance of drowning as…

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“Shin Splints”

March 10, 2022 Tom Welch

One of the ironies of modern medicine is that it sometimes seems that little attention is devoted to the things…

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Life in Balance

January 26, 2022 Tom Welch

“Wilderness medicine” is about a lot more than splinting complex fractures on steep slopes in a snowstorm. Much of the…

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Too Hot to Handle

November 11, 2021 Tom Welch

Although the first snowfall has hit the Adirondacks, my current “Adirondoc” column is on heat illnesses.  It seemed timely because…

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Drowning

May 6, 2021 Tom Welch

As I write this, it is 48 degrees in the southern Adirondacks.  Yet, the ice is off of the lakes,…

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Drowning Essential Tool or Silly Affectation

Tom Welch

ALTHOUGH MOST Adirondack lakes are frozen as I write this column, they will be approaching swimmable by the time you…

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Achilles Ankle

September 16, 2020 Tom Welch

IN DECADES OF RUNNING, hiking, and climbing, I have had only one ankle sprain. I was running on a dark…

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Dangerous Tools

March 8, 2019 Tom Welch

IN MANY OUTDOOR SPORTS equipment malfunction or misuse is a major cause of injury. This is generally not the case…

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Bleeding Always Stops

March 7, 2019 Tom Welch

THIS COLUMN’S TITLE is one of the pithy aphorisms I learned from my medical school surgery professor, the acclaimed trauma…

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