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Lunch Box Quotes

ByRon P. SchweryMay 12, 2026

A lesson in paying attention. A couple of days ago, we had a couple of candidates choose to depart from the course early. This happens every class. I’ve done basically the same drill probably hundreds of times now, but this one was different. It started with a slight

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Re-post: Triage and Squeaky Wheel Medicine: Applying Order to Chaos

ByRon P. SchweryNovember 2, 2021

Just a few more days and I am back on track…Since I have not been able to regularly post here and since I am using this article for the final class that I have to ‘teach,’ the following is a re-post from almost a year ago… Looking back, I don’t think

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Burns: Lessons Learned from Long Term Care

ByRon P. SchweryOctober 29, 2021

I hate burns, always have. They hurt and it is difficult to get relief when treating them. As a former Special Forces Medic (18D) who still occasionally teaches Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), I don’t know many medics/corpsmen or anyone else really who likes to

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Social Networking and Blood Transfusions.

ByRon P. SchwerySeptember 21, 2020

From the RAMC Muniment Collection in the care of the Wellcome Library. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Image obtained from: https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2014/06/13/history-of-blood-transfusions/ One of the more interesting things about starting this project has been

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A Vaccination Series: Typhoid Fever

ByRon P. SchweryAugust 24, 2020

Typhoid Mary, image obtained from: https://canadianfoodsafetytraining.com/2018/04/11/11075/ One week turns into two or even a month so quick…family visits, kids back to school, lacrosse tournaments, a very busy wife, my real job, oh and a small electrical fire. No kidding,

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A Vaccination Series: Yellow Fever

ByRon P. SchweryJuly 14, 2020

Everyone generally knows why we get vaccines but how much do we really know about the diseases / viruses that we are getting them for? The roots for this series of posts goes back to all of those shots we received in basic training and I think can provide perspective and

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Monday Morning Medical: Blown Ear Drum

ByRon P. SchweryApril 20, 2020

Morning eh…there were lots of questions on the home school front today…I don’t know how common blown ear drums are for everyday folks, but I imagine it happens more often in our line of work than others. (I say our line of work with the full acknowledgement that I have not

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