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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When a trivial injury results in some minor bleeding, our body activates a system for stopping the bleeding. Our coagulation…
One of the points I regularly make in wilderness medicine talks, courses, and columns is the importance of drowning as…
After twenty-three years of writing this column, some overlap of subject matter is probably inevitable. I am going to discuss…
One of the ironies of modern medicine is that it sometimes seems that little attention is devoted to the things…
I WRITE THIS COLUMN as we end one of the warmest summers in memory. All indications are that this sorry…
READERS COULD BE forgiven for wondering “What more could he possibly have to say about ticks?” Indeed, the wilderness medicine…
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…