...The concept of modern day Emergency Medical Services (EMS) care is widely noted to begin with the academic paper, "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society", (or "White Paper") in 1966, according to EMS textbooks and relevant academia in the field. This paper detailed the statistics of highway accidents resulting in injury and death in the mid 60's, as well as other causes of injury and death, and used the statistics to confirm that reform was needed in the United States, especially concerning public education and the amount of CPR and BLS/First Aid training received by police officers, firemen, and ambulance services at the time. The EMT program in the United States began as part of the "Alexandria Plan" in the early 70's, in addition to a growing issue with injuries associated with car accidents. Emergency medicine (EM) as a medical specialty is relatively young. Prior to the 1960s and 70s, hospital emergency departments were generally staffed by physicians on staff at the hospital on a rotating basis, among them general surgeons, internists, psychiatrists, and dermatologists. Physicians in training (interns and residents), foreign medical graduates and sometimes nurses also staffed the Emergency Department (ED). EM was born as a specialty in order to fill the time commitment required by physicians on staff to work in the increasingly chaotic emergency departments (EDs) of the time. During this period, groups of physicians began to emerge who...
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...One reason is because a jury may think of a white collar criminal as not as bad as a “common criminal”. The white collar criminals normaly commit are Medicare fraud, mortgage fraud, tax fraud, identity theft, security fraud (stock exchange), and posse schemes. The white collar criminals can be hard to catch. The process starts off by an individual filing a complaint that their money is missing or has been misplaced. The federal prosecutor’s office then investagates with its team of technitians were the money went and who took it. Then Luis steps in and prosecutes the suspect. This process can take one month or many...
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