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Each diver has his own style. Our individuality is what makes us who we are: We all do different things for a living, enjoy a...
15 July 2012
Joel Dovenbarger
JOEL DOVENBARGER, Vice President of DAN America Medical Services, has been with DAN since 1985. A medical professional for 30 years, Dovenbarger started work as a registered nurse in 1976 and began in hyperbaric and diving medicine at the F.G. Hall Lab at Duke Medical Center in 1982.
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Cerebral and Spinal Cord DCI
The dive vessel was seven hours from the nearest land. DAN helped enlist a rescue helicopter to evacuate the diver to the nearest hospital and...
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Differential Diagnosis
The Diver This is a 51-year-old female who is in good health. In the past year, she had two vertebrae in her neck (cervical vertebrae 5...
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