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Correctional Healthcare Is Changing and Here’s Why

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In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them. . One 2013 emergency room incident turned violent when an inmate visiting the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary fought with his security guards. He was shot in the chest and a deputy sheriff was shot in the leg.

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Exploring the Cosmos with Telemedicine

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Space has inspired some of our finest writers like Isaac Asimov and Ursula Le Guin, as well as Hollywood odysseys like Star Trek and 2001: Space Odyssey. “In the next generation vehicle, when we go to Mars and the Moon, why wouldn’t we have telemedicine available?”. Beyond Our Cosmic Backyard.