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Shelf Stability and SLEP: What Expiration Dates Actually Mean | MED-TAC International
"Expiration dates are for the weak." It's a phrase that circulates in prepper media with the swagger of an inside secret — the suggestion that manufacturers stamp dates on products purely to drive sales, that the consumer is the mark,...
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The current medical equipment recommendations from CoTCCC. You will notice that the list of recommended TQ has been expanded. A full...
Incidence and Cause of Potentially Preventable Death after Civilian Public Mass Shooting in the US
Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Academic Surgical Congress, Houston, TX, February 2019. E Reed Smith, MD, Babak Sarani, MD,...
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In this EM Cases CritCases blog - a collaboration with STARS Air Ambulance Service, Mike Betzner, we present a challenging...
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