Faculty Bibliography

'The Cleaner' A&E Aug. 25, 10 p.m. Episode: 'Cinderella' The premise While William Banks (Benjamin Bratt), a former drug addict, watches his daughter Lula rehearse for a ballet recital, he discovers that the top ballerina in the troupe, Callie Bell (Ksenia Solo), is addicted to drugs. Narcotic pain medications are only temporary treatments for flare-ups of herniated discs, says Dr. Michel Dubois, director of research and education at the NYU Langone Medical Center pain program.

Pollard wrote a letter, published in the American Thinker in August and well-circulated since, that shows what is being done to help the uninsured rather than what is not being done: 'I operate on at least two illegal immigrants each month who pay me nothing, and the children's hospital at which I operate charges them nothing also.'

[...] parents may be strong donor candidates, but a perfectly matched sibling would be preferable. --

Mercy [Television Program] -- [...] one of Veronica's patients, a 60-year-old woman dying of metastatic liver cancer, is subjecting herself to further surgery and chemotherapy only to placate her adult children. [...] a patient would never sustain a cardiac arrest soon after the accident unless there was severe bleeding; second, because a fat embolism usually occurs a few days after multiple fractures, not immediately, and seldom from a single gunshot wound

By law, nurses will lose their license if they endanger patient safety or have been convicted of a crime related to their addiction (such as stealing opiates), says Dr. Timothy Fong, program director of UCLA's Addiction Medicine Clinic.

Fringe [Television Program] -- [...] examination of the child reveals that his intestines lack Lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria, which aid in digestion, and that he has low blood levels of vitamin D -- both of which are attributed to his underground existence. Sinai School of Medicine in New York and an expert in post-traumatic stress disorder, has taken care of a patient who as a child famously survived for months in the sewers of Lvov, Poland, during World War II eating rodents and insects

The dropout rate is less at major medical centers such as New York University's Langone Medical Center where I work, or Mount Sinai Medical Center, because larger physician networks have more leverage when choosing health plans

ER [Television Program] -- 'ER' NBC, Thursday, March 26, 10 p.m.; Episode: 'I Feel Good' The premise At a winter reunion of a summer camp for children who've had open heart surgery, camp veteran Vera befriends a first-time camper, Emily, whose parents prefer that she avoid exertion in the wake of several surgeries and finally a heart transplant for an underdeveloped heart

Since this new virus contains some parts of old flu viruses, it appears that most of those who are infected are exhibiting some immunity to it. [...] it's encouraging that we're dealing with a swine flu rather than a bird flu.\n

Criminal Minds [Television Program] -- According to the anthrax manual of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for infectious diseases, the incubation time between exposure and the first symptoms is one to six days, with death usually occurring within 24 to 36 hours after the onset of severe symptoms. The FBI would be in charge of the criminal investigation involving anthrax exposure, as the show depicts, with the CDC working with state and local health departments for the local investigation and public health response