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Q: I am a camp director who requires our staff to have medical training. If they do render care, what if anything should be documented?

Q: My son was diagnosed with mono last week. He is scheduled for philmon with the scouts on June 13. He is a 6'5 and swims high school & the YMCA teams. How do I know if he is OK to go on this.

Q: I'm a first year medical student at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. How do I become more involved in Wilderness Medicine and gain more experience?

Q: “My niece and I got stung by hornets.  Someone said to put a penny on the sting as an effective treatment.
Is this true?”

Q: Once a person has had an anaphylactic reaction to a substance, will all subsequent exposures invariably lead to similar or worse reactions?

Q: Do hives only occur as a result of an allergic reaction?