Fatal overdoses leave medical examiner’s office struggling with workload is about how the opioid overdose epidemic has burdened the medical examiners with an enormous and unsustainable workload and has threatened the reputation and accreditation of the nationally regarded office. “Maryland emergency doctors find new life-saving use in old machine” is about how some of the nation’s most respected trauma doctors got an old, unused machine off the back of a truck and now use it regularly to save some of the most severely injured gunshot victims and other severely injured patients even though many studies suggest it wouldn’t be helpful. “Growing drug use and changing drugs laws pose challenges for employers” is about how medical marijuana has caused problems for employers who don’t want their workers using drugs but don’t have a clear idea of what they should or are allowed to do about it. “UMBC and Johns Hopkins lead effort to extend viability of organs and body parts for transplant” is about the teaming up of engineers and doctors from different universities to potentially transform organ transplantation by creating a way to preserve the organs outside the body for far longer. “Christmas miracles? Science may have a say in some of this” is a holiday bright that seeks to explain why Rudolph’s nose glows and the Grinch’s heart expands and how Scrooge time travels, all without doctors having the benefit of actually examining the patients.
