medical emergencies

Chest pain – The Diagnosis!

June 24, 2012 By Ron Burdine Leave a Comment

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By Kristin Eckland This is the second in a series on chest pain and chest pain emergencies. You’ve developed jaw pain and profuse sweating, and a sense of dread. You know something is wrong. Now what?!! Well, that depends on where you are. If you are in a rural area, you may not have a [...]

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Meet Kristin Eckland!

May 26, 2012 By Ron Burdine Leave a Comment

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By Kristin Eckland I never meant to end up in Mexico! At least, it wasn’t in the grand scheme of things to do in my life. But sometimes things don’t follow our best laid plans and it all works out just fine. A couple of years ago, I had a steady practice in my native Virginia [...]

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Kristin Eckland, aka "Traveling NP"

May 25, 2012 By Ron Burdine Leave a Comment

Kristin Eckland

Kristin Eckland is an acute care nurse practitioner in cardiothoracic surgery, originally from southern Virginia. After fielding a growing number of inquiries regarding medical tourism from her patients, and discovering an alarming lack of regulation and quality control for overseas medical travelers, she decided to embark on her own investigation regarding the quality of care provided by facilities, [...]

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Chest Pain Emergencies!

May 15, 2012 By Ron Burdine Leave a Comment

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By Kristin Eckland, Nurse Practioner and feature medical writer; blogs on thoracic surgery at www.cirugiadetorax.org and general surgical information and travel at www.cartagenasurgery.wordpress.com This is the first in the series on chest pain emergencies. During this series we will talk about recognizing symptoms, where to go, what tests or treatments to expect, and what medications [...]

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