I recently returned from our annual Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) summer meeting, where I spent some quality time with some Mega-Smart people. This year we joined forces with the International Society for Travel Medicine (ISTM) in Jackson Hole, WY, hosting over 500 attendees for five high-value content days learning about everything from advances in Frostbite Management to The Border…
The Most Beautiful Glimpse of Yosemite Without Actually Going Recently a friend of mine sent me this Vimeo knowing I’d love it because of my affection for the Sierras and Yosemite. Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo. Yeah, it’s pretty freakin’ amazing photography. Not only that, but I got this deja vu feeling while…
Preventive Measures One of my favorite topics to talk about to patients, students, and friends I am traveling with, is prevention. It’s much easier to anticipate potential problems when heading to the backcountry than to fix something that was preventable. Some prime examples are: Vaccines – Hepatitis A, Typhoid, Tetanus and Rabies Preparation – Know the…
Multiple Generations of Wilderness Medicine Physicians Last week was a sweep for Wilderness Medicine In Philly. It began on Thursday when Dr. Paul Auerbach, one of the founding members of the Wilderness Medical Society and the author of the academic text Wilderness Medicine gave a two-hour Grand Rounds at Jefferson entitled “Earthquake! The Stanford Response to Haiti 2010.”…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 8 of There Are Signs Everywhere Safe and sound at JFK after three weeks on this awesome epic zen adventure. Thanks to my friends and colleagues, the WMS and Peak Promotions for making it work, helping clear the schedule, setting me up…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 7 of There Are Signs Everywhere “And then there were ten” (almost nine) Everything turned out all right in the end. But it had been an eventful 24 hours or so. Our down trekking days proved to be, in ways,…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 6 of There Are Signs Everywhere. Exactly one year ago: The Night Before We spent the night before Everest Base Camp (EBC) arrival at Gorakshep where we did some solar charging and sunset watching. Climax Day The Kalapatthar group arrived at…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 5 of There Are Signs Everywhere It was Easter Sunday the day we left for Pheriche. The sunrise from Tengboche left me speechless: Half the group spent some early morning hours at the Monestary. The other half had our own…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 4 of There Are Signs Everywhere It was a full day of a beautiful acclimatization hike to Kumjung then on to Kunde and back to Namche to sleep at a lower elevation. Ama Dablam, the Nepalese Matterhorn meaning “Mother’s Necklace”, and…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 3 of There Are Signs Everywhere As luck would have it, just after Jim taught me how to get the histogram on my camera display, the Rebel T2i battery ran out, so most pics from day one were iPhone specials. They…
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