Some physicians staffing emergency rooms (ERs) across America have not been adequately trained to stop bleeding, resuscitate a child, or to treat a patient in cardiac arrest, among other health emergencies.

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1. Letters to the Editor
2. Reimbursement inequities leave rural practices 'in the dust'
3. Response: Reimbursement inequities leave rural practices 'in the dust'
4. Editorial Comments
5. Some physicians staffing emergency rooms (ERs) across America have not been adequately trained to stop bleeding, resuscitate a child, or to treat a patient in cardiac arrest, among other health emergencies.
6. The worldwide death toll from smoking continues to escalate
7. The benefits of screening healthy men for prostate cancer are once again being questioned in the latest research.
8. Saturated fats play some role in the development of ovarian cancer
9. News
10. From the CDC: Smoking-related healthcare costs escalate
11. From the FDA: Breast exam device rejected
12. From the EPA: Regulations for medical incinerators to be proposed
13. From the PHS: Illegal drug use up, concern down
14. Book Reviews
15. Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia
16. Joslin's Diabetes Mellitus
17. News
18. Cognitive effects of ERT in older women
19. Editorial
20. ER protocols needed for treating cardiac patients—STAT
21. Original Contribution
22. HIV prevention: Factors that predict compliance with testing and counseling procedures
23. Review
24. An osteopathic cardiologist's review of hypertension: Beyond The Fifth Report of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
25. Health Policy
26. Skewed incentives in our healthcare delivery system
27. Abstracts
28. Thirty-Eighth Annual AOA Research Conference Abstracts, 1994: Addendum