Emergency Medicine

We Should Be Thankful For The New FDNY Social Media Guidelines

Last week, fellow Voice scribe Nick Greene gave us the lowdown on social media informalities for Facebook. Can you post that picture(s) of your vacation? No, please don't. How about your political views? Stop, nobody cares. And what about a job promotion? Ugh. You get the picture. Well, these stand ... More >>

Bloomberg, Pals Order Limit on Painkiller Prescriptions in City's Public Hospitals

Kudos to Mayor Bloomberg, local prosecutors and medical folks for moving to sharply limit the amount of prescription painkillers doled out in emergency rooms in the city's 11 public hospitals. It's about time someone took on the over-prescribing of highly addictive drugs like oxycodone and hydrocodo ... More >>

Biting, Yelling, Police At Gay Bars

Weird stuff has been happening on Christopher Street. First came a message from Robert Ziegler, the owner of Boots & Saddle and co-president of the West Village Coalition. "Six officers arrested me last night for speaking loud to them." He says he was escorting an unruly customer out the door of ... More >>

BBQ IN THE CITY

Consider this your July 4th warm-up

EMT Injured While Breaking Up Fight at Occupy Wall Street

​Last night at Zuccotti Park, an EMT broke his leg responding to a fight and had to be taken away to in an ambulance. This was one of four fights that required security's attention at the park between 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. The offender in the fight that injured the EMT was also taken away ... More >>

FATHER KNOWS BEST

Boo Killebrew's The Play About My Dad

Today in El Diario: Alcohol's Deadly Toll

​Drowning in drink New Yorkers drink a lot, so there's always a steady stream of hospitalizations and emergency room visits because of booze, and some of the city's immigrant communities are leading the way, according to the Spanish-language daily. In 2009, alcohol led to 70,000 emergency room ... More >>

GROWING PAINS

Love blooms in the nurse’s office

Sidebar: Whose Dole Is It Anyway?

New Yorkers Actually Drink Less Than the Nationwide Average. Really.

​There's a new New York City drinking survey out, and chances are, you're a drinker, because more than half of New Yorkers of legal drinking age are (congrats!). We were surprised and vindicated to find, however, that New Yorkers on average (53%) actually drank less than the nationwide average ... More >>

The Addiction

The 2010 Ice Factory Helps the Ohio Theatre Say Farewell

Hater and Nurses in New England are among the two last shows to be staged on Wooster Street

New York City Will Wage War on Bed Bugs With Special "Bed Bug Academy"

The enemy is here.​Less than 24 hours after Mike Bloomberg issued his "geese or humans" ultimatum, we hear he's also got it out for the bed bugs. Except in this case, we pretty much approve. After all, they've infested valuable shopping haunts like Victoria's Secret and Hollister, not to menti ... More >>

Charlie St. Cloud, Starring Zac Efron's Abs

The Most Heartbreaking Sentence About Love You Will Read This Week

​Yesterday, the New York Daily News ran a story that's getting passed around still quite a bit today: 30 year-old Richard Butler and 25 year-old Bethany Lott -- a cute, young, happy couple -- went hiking on a mountain bordering Tennessee and North Carolina. Butler had an engagement ring in his ... More >>

Doctors and Nurses to Rally at St. Vincent's Tuesday

Photo by William Alatriste, courtesy NYC Council​Medical staff from St. Vincent's are not happy with what they feel was an abrupt shutdown of talks that might have saved the hospital, and will gather tomorrow with local residents in a community rally/press conference to speak out on the closin ... More >>

Dennis Hopper Out of New York Hospital After Flu Scare

​You may have heard that Dennis Hopper was hospitalized in New York yesterday for "flu-like symptoms." Since Hopper is 73, came in via ambulance and emergency room, and some flu strains have been killing people, that may have been cause for concern. But Hopper has been discharged from the hosp ... More >>

Breaking: Michael Jackson Suffers Cardiac Arrest, Is Rushed to Hospital. Update: Jackson, Dead at 50

The L.A. Times is reporting that Michael Jackson was rushed to UCLA Medical Center this afternoon after paramedics responded to call at Jackson's home. When they arrived, Jackson "was not breathing." Joe Jackson, Michael's father, has apparently since told TMZ "he is not doing well." Update: TMZ i ... More >>

Murdered Staten Island Woman's Parents Sue EMT Who Posted Death Pic

The parents of Carolyn Wimmer -- the Staten Island woman apparently murdered by a nut who thought she was spreading stories about him on MySpace -- are involved in an internet dispute of their own: they're bringing a lawsuit against the EMT who posted a picture Wimmer's corpse on his Facebook page. ... More >>

Cops Nab Dad Who Stabbed Son, 2, In Head with Knife

The Bed-Stuy man who stabbed his 2-year-old in the head this weekend -- accidentally, the Post assures us; he was trying to stab the boy's mother -- has been apprehended. Cops found Jamarr Brown, 24, and are mulling charges. The boy, Jaden Brown, was in mother Nicole Brown's arms when his dad went ... More >>

Mt. Vernon EMTs Remove "Crackhead" from Wall

The filmmaking is poor and doesn't build the scene is a satisfying way, but some things are interesting just because they happened. Here Mt. Vernon, New York emergency medical, police, and fire department personnel extract a man from the wall of an apartment. The poster claims the man is his upst ... More >>

Unemployment Hits 8.1%, Wal-Mart Still Hiring

The national unemployment rate went to 8.1 percent last month as 651,000 jobs were lost. The losses are attributable not only to collapsing Wall Street giants, but also to corner-cutting by "healthy" companies like IBM, who in January announced a strong 4th quarter and said that "most importantly, w ... More >>

Sully Fever! Flight 1549 Pilots, Crew Get Keys to the City

Mayor Bloomberg introduced "five real American heroes, the crew of US Airways Flight 1549" at City Hall today in a Key to the City ceremony. Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles, and flight attendants Donna Dent, Sheila Dail and Doreen Walsh received their honors for their d ... More >>

The Mogwai Drummer Scare: Martin Bulloch Home Safe in Scotland

The Lone Jayhawk

Divorced and depressed, Mark Olson eschews the ambulance for the solo album

Those other 9-11 victims speak out

Preparing for a Higher 9-11 Toll

The Art of Dying

A Romanian unknown's ode to mortality is the most remarkable film of the year so far

These Stats Are a Crime

While Bloomberg boasts of crime drop, the hospitals' work on assault victims is booming

Bush, You Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do

Big-on-terror White House wasn’t ready for Katrina

One Sick Fall

With health insurance out of reach, a generation braces itself for the worst

Letters

Live Sex Accidents

Round Up the Unusual Suspects

A New Health-Emergency Law Raises Concerns for the Immune Compromised

Will Help Come in Time?

Bed-Stuy Ambulance Corps Needs First Aid

Ambulance Wars

How Private Ambulance Crews Steer Patients Away From Public Hospitals

Diversionary Tactics

City Ambulances Head Toward Privatization

Emergency Turf War

EMS Watchdog Committee Suspended

Heroin Hassles

Medical and Legal Issues Keep Overdose Antidote Out of Users' Hands

The Uncovered

How New York’s Uninsured Really Survive

EMERGENCY

Race Under Fire

'New York's Bravest' Said It Refused To Hire a Black Paramedic Because He Lied and Used Drugs. He Says Discrimination Kept Him From Moving Up the Ladder.

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