Environmental Medical Emergencies, Vacation Dangers: Mistakes and Strategies
Description: Topics to be included:
1. High altitude illness
2. Frostbite and hypothermia
3. Rip tides and currents and near-drowning
4. Lightning strikes
5. Heat-related illness
6. Radiation injury (with discussion of the electromagnetic spectrum)
Audience participation sharing personal experiences will be encouraged.
Date: Tuesday, March 25
Time: 11:00 a.m. - noon
Location: Loomis Lakeside at Reeds Landing
Instructor: Murray Watnick, MD, Board Certified in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Instructor Biography: Murray Watnick, MD, is board certified in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine. He graduated from Columbia University and MD State University of New York. His residency was done at Boston City Hospital Diagnostic Radiology and Radiotherapy. He served as a medical officer with Strategic Air Command (SAC) and Third Air Force. For more than two decades, he worked as a diagnostic radiologist at a community hospital in Westfield, Mass., with positions of chief radiologist and president of the medical staff. He also worked as a radiologist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, Mass., including working with returning combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. He has served as a temporary advisor in radiology for the World Health Organization to promote the World Health Imaging System, including trips to Central America. His teaching clinical appointments include the University of Massachusetts, University of Connecticut, Harvard University, and Boston University, the latter as associate professor.
