Emergency room doctors John Brown and Clement Yeh discuss how acute care needs are met through our emergency response system and medical disaster relief. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14836]
Duration : 1:27:59
Dr. Kenneth Kamler recalls his harrowing experience on a climb towards the summit of Mt. Everest in 1996 when a lethal 2-day storm kicked up. The event, documented by writer Jon Krakauer in his bestselling book Into Thin Air, would lead to the deaths of eight climbers and leave several others — including Kamler — stranded and fighting for their lives.
In this presentation, Kamler explores the effects of the disaster, the rescue, and the relentless drive of human survival.
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Kenneth “Ken” Kamler is a microsurgeon and mountain climber. Kamler was chosen by New York Magazine as one of New York City’s best doctors in 2002. He is a microsurgeon trained at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center who also practices extreme medicine in the most remote corners of the world. He has served as chief high altitude physician for the NASA-sponsored research in human physiological responses to extreme altitude.
As covered in the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, in May 1996, Kamler was at Camp III on Mount Everest preparing for a summit attempt when a ferocious storm engulfed three teams of climbers returning from the peak. As the only doctor on the mountain when the storm hit, he treated the survivors as they descended from Camp IV.
A climber and doctor on many Everest expeditions, he has worked with National Geographic to carry out geological research and precision mapping using laser telescopes and global positioning satellite beacons. He appeared on ABC’s Nightline in the first-ever live interview from Everest base camp. and has appeared many times on national television. Kamler lives in the New York City area.
Duration : 0:22:0
Prime Time Wrestling 1992. Quake and Typo after Faceturn. A few days before Wrestlemania 8.
Duration : 0:3:23
Al Jazeera speaks to John O’Shea, the founder of the Irish medical charity, Goal, who has participated in the the Haiti earthquake relief effort.
He’s been heavily critical of the coordination and leadership of the aid mission in the Carribean country.
Shea has called the response to the natural disaster from the international community a “man made disaster“.
[January 19, 2010]
Duration : 0:4:35
Keith reports on the flooding in the Midwest and the response by the Bush administration and McCain and Obama campaigns. Rachel Maddow weighs in.
Duration : 0:5:36
JOHN MCCAIN: “We need to do for Health-Care insurance what we have done for the banking industry: deregulate.”…In a refrain weve heard many times in recent years, Mr. McCain said he is committed to ridding the market of these needless and costly insurance regulations.
This entire McCain health insurance transformation is right out of the right-wing Republicans ideological playbook: fewer regulations; let the market decide; and send unsophisticated consumers into the crucible alone.
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Duration : 0:5:28
The first installment of Daniel and John’s presentation of their 2 month journey doing disaster relief work in 2004 to 2005 for the tsunami in Indonesia killing over 200,000 people.
Duration : 0:7:49
09-22-08: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich appears with Greta Van Susteren “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel and says the bailout plan is a disaster on September 22nd 2008.
Go Here:
http://newt.org/
Must Read:
How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_hassett&sid=aSKSoiNbnQY0
Duration : 0:2:32
09-22-08: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich appears with Greta Van Susteren “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel and says the bailout plan is a disaster on September 22nd 2008.
Go Here:
http://newt.org/
Must Read:
How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_hassett&sid=aSKSoiNbnQY0
Duration : 0:3:23
09-22-08: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich appears with Greta Van Susteren “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel and says the bailout plan is a disaster on September 22nd 2008.
Go Here:
http://newt.org/
Must Read:
How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_hassett&sid=aSKSoiNbnQY0
Duration : 0:7:6
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