In order to meet the high demand for free medical, dental and eye care services in the Tri-Cities region, Remote Area Medical® (RAM) and local organizers have extended next month’s RAM clinic to a three-day event instead of two, officials announced this week.
The event will now be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 13-15 on the infield of the Bristol Motor Speedway.
“We initially intended to hold the clinic on just Saturday and Sunday, but as we moved through the planning process, it became apparent that the need in this region really demands a three-day event,” said Helen Scott, chair of the Tri-Cities RAM board of directors. “We are grateful to Bristol Motor Speedway and to all of the volunteers who are willing to donate that extra day in order to make sure people don’t have to go without the care they need.”
Remote Area Medical events are volunteer driven. Medical, dental and vision professionals from across the region and other parts of the country will gather at BMS to provide free care to the uninsured and underinsured. There are no
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No family wants to plan for tragedies like accidents, injuries or medical malpractice. And hopefully you won’t have to. But that doesn’t mean you still shouldn’t be prepared for anything that could potentially lie in your way of a safe and bright future, with your friends and loved ones.
That’s why it’s so important to assemble a team of smart professionals to call on, should an accident ever strike your family. It’s helpful to know exactly what happens in malpractice, and exactly what avenues to pursue, after discovering you or a loved one has been a victim.
Thankfully, it shouldn’t be stressful or expensive to find professionals, who can work on your behalf, and it shouldn’t be too time-consuming either. Establishing a relationship with each of your lawyers and doctors is the key, to having them fight on your behalf after an incident. And even though you can hire the best professionals, it’s still helpful to know how the medical staff and hospital team will approach a claim.
Knowing all the angles of any particular case, will help you maneuver your way through hardship, and secure financial stability for your loved ones, should you become unable to provide. Below, take a loo Read full article…
When there is an accident on a construction site, there are too many consequences. A day of work is gone, a project may be delayed costing thousands of dollars, or even a life is lost.
On a construction site, people work with all kinds of dangerous materials, tools, and machines. Something as simple as losing your footing tripping on a dropped piece of wood is intensified a thousand fold because it can happen 500 feet above the ground. This is a workplace where even the most minor accident can have catastrophic results.
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Maggie Gartner
The Student Counseling Service (SCS) was established by Dr. Wade Birch in the early 1970s. What began as a small shop with just a few staff has grown to 32 service providers — counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists — to serve Texas A&M’s 50,000 students.
The SCS provides individual, couple and group counseling, psychological testing, consultation and HelpLine, an after-hours crisis hotline service.
The Programs for Academic Success Skills (PASS) initiative provides students with an opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enhance study and exam-taking ability, while decreasing their anxiety related to academic performance. PASS services also include individual and group counseling, assessment of study behaviors, screening for learning disabilities and extensive collection of self-help resources.
Another service of SCS is learning disability screening for learning disabilities and ADD and ADHD. SCS h
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They might be dubbed the drudgery graduates. After three years of study, running up thousands of pounds of debt, university leavers are emerging into the workforce to find that the only jobs on offer involve stacking shelves or serving coffee.
More than one in three recent graduates now works in a low-skilled job, up from around a quarter 10 years ago, new figures have shown. Over a third (35.9 per cent) of recent graduates were in non-graduate jobs at the end of 2011 – up from 26.7 per cent in 2001.
But these are among the lucky ones. The figures, from the Office for National Statistics, also showed around a fifth of new graduates are unemployed.
The best-paid graduates are those with degrees in medicine and dentistry, earning more than £21 an hour. The lowest paid are those with degrees in the arts and humanities who earn on average around £12 an hour – about 20 per cent lower than the graduate average.
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