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Our colleagues in orthopedics are looking for help in staffing the NYC Triathlon on July 20th.

This seems like an excellent opportunity for us, as there could be many orthopedic and non-orthopedic injuries. They’re pretty good teachers for sports-medicine type injuries but I suspect they’ll lean on our expertise for heat exhaustion, aspiration, and who knows what else.

Geordi Gantseodes is involved, and Mark Klion is the ortho in charge.  His email: bcrusher@aol.com

They are planning to meet at 5:30 AM at the 79th St Boathouse (you will be familiar with this locale after the retreat next week).  There will be a medical tent there.  The triathlon should last until 12 or 1 PM.

More triathlon info is available online.

An editor from the Atlantic Monthly recently contacted me about a piece he’s working on. He’s looking for tales of “do-it-yourself” medicine gone awry — patients that present to the ED after trying to excise lipomas, or used the web to inappropriately diagnose and medicate themselves.

If you’ve got some stories like this, let me know and I’ll put you in touch with him.