Tag: Brown Emergency Medicine
Lifespan and Brown appoint Dr. Linda Brown chair of emergency medicine...
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp. and Brown University have announced that Dr. Linda L. Brown will serve as the chair of the Department of Emergency...
Are electronic health records burning out doctors?
Dr. Oliver Mayorga recalls one time attending to a patient in the Westerly Hospital emergency room who was suffering from cancer.
The patient, a Rhode...
Brown initiative tracks risks in local drug supply, public warned of...
PROVIDENCE – The two drug samples, sold on the streets of Providence and Warwick as methamphetamine, may have seemed indistinguishable at a glance. But...
Out-of-state telehealth visits hit some snags
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine was hailed as a lifesaver, allowing patients to see their doctor virtually without the risk of...
Five Questions With: Dr. Tracy Madsen
Dr. Tracy Madsen, an emergency room physician at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, has been selected by the National Academy of Medicine...
Push on to make benefits of telehealth permanent
Seeing a doctor became much easier in the pandemic for many people who avoided travel time, office waits and the risk of exposure to...
Rhode Island Hospital part of national trial weighing benefits of COVID-19...
PROVIDENCE – A clinical trial aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of treating COVID-19 patients with antibodies from others who have had or been exposed...
Brown Emergency Medicine unveils new video-visit platform
PROVIDENCE – Brown Emergency Medicine has launched a new virtual platform enabling its emergency physicians to treat patients for a range of mild to...
RIDOH, BHDDH partner on new Buprenorphine Hotline
CRANSTON – Launched this month, a new state hotline is helping people with opioid addiction, or who are suffering from opioid withdrawal, find help...
A side effect of the pandemic: Emptier emergency rooms
Dr. Laura Forman, chief of emergency medicine at Kent County Memorial Hospital, is used to seeing about 200 patients a day come through the...
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