Do you often find yourself standing at the vending machine, weighing the pros and cons of choosing one nutritionally void snack item over another? Do you wonder why vending machines for hospital staff never seem to offer any healthy options? With the wealth of nutrient-dense, tasty and healthy snack items available on the market today, there is no reason why you should be stuck at work with nothing good to eat. The best way to beat the vending machine blues is to get in the habit of keeping great snack items on hand, both at home and at work. Here is a comparison between some typical vending machine choices and their healthier counterparts.

You just walked in after a stressful night shift and you head straight to the refrigerator. You’ve been eating alternately salty and sugary snacks for 12 hours, not to mention drinking an entire pot of coffee, and now your stomach doesn’t know if it wants to boycott food or devour a double bacon cheeseburger. What you do know is that you’d like to get some rest. So what should you grab to eat?

Sincerely,
Concerned Doc

 

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Dear Boss,
I am just starting my final year of residency and while I know I want to practice community emergency medicine, I am thinking that I should do an ultrasound fellowship to help me get the best community job out there. Do I need a fellowship?
Signed,
Fellow Wanderer

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, chaired by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn), passed a health bill on July 15th that finally laid out the specifics of the biggest overhaul of health care in history. Here are the highlights.

There’s no doubt that emergency medicine is a buyer’s market. Every year demand increases and residency programs fail to turn out enough physicians to pick up the slack.