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Flag of the Marine Hospital Service. The Marine Hospital Service was an organization of Marine Hospitals dedicated to the care of ill and disabled seamen in the United States Merchant Marine, the U.S. Coast Guard and other federal beneficiaries. The Marine Hospital Service evolved into the U.S. Public Health Service.
Dr. (Captain) George F. Bond, senior medical officer and principal investigator for the SEALAB I and II experiments. Preliminary research work was undertaken by George F. Bond, who named the project after the Book of Genesis, which prophesised humans would gain dominion over the oceans.
The scope of hospital medicine includes acute patient care, teaching, research, and executive leadership related to the delivery of hospital-based care. Hospital medicine, like emergency medicine , is a specialty organized around the location of care (the hospital), rather than an organ (like cardiology ), disease (like oncology ), or a patient ...
Southern California Marine Institute, a multi-campus research station on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles area. University of Alaska Fairbanks , College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, which also houses the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research , is based in Fairbanks, Alaska and also has a small station in Seward, Alaska .
The U.S. Navy Hospital Corps was created in 1898, with hospital corpsman used as a generic name for the applicable personnel while various other official names (including hospital apprentice, hospital steward, pharmacist's mate) were used for the rating; after World War II, hospital corpsman became the official name for the rating.
As part of the FIU Marine Education and Research Initiative, the Medina Aquarius Program is dedicated to the study and preservation of marine ecosystems worldwide and is enhancing the scope and impact of FIU on research, educational outreach, technology development, and professional training. At the heart of the program is the Aquarius Reef Base.
United States Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort in 2009.. A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital.Most are operated by the military forces (mostly navies) of various countries, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones. [1]
a. Be available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week to receive requests from vessels at sea and/or the RCC for the provision of medical advice; b. Making prompt medical assessments of remote patients and providing prompt advice to ships’ Masters in relation to medical treatment to be administered to those patients, generally by non-medical personnel;