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Emergency Backup Communications: The Old Meets the New

When the Bethesda Hospitals’ Emergency Preparedness Partnership (BHEPP) began searching in 2008 for an emergency backup communication system to support its three allied hospitals in emergencies, they turned to one of the oldest electronic communication technologies in the world—radio, pioneered by Guglielmo Marconi in 1896. Since then, the technology of amateur or “ham” radio has…

Wheelchair Kamikazi blog excerpt

Health and Medicine Blogs Collection: A 21st Century Twist

“What wondrous things my four working limbs were once able to accomplish!” writes Marc, a 48-year-old New Yorker diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis in 2003, in his blog, “Wheelchair Kamikaze.” You can tap into Marc’s “Rants, Ruminations, and Reflections of a Mad MStery Patient” and 11 more health-related blogs authored by physicians, nurses, patients like…