Mr. Ryan S. Searle, MD, ABEM

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Get to know Emergency and Occupational Medicine Physician Dr. Ryan S. Searle, who serves the population of Massachusetts.

Dr. Searle is currently practicing occupational medicine via Comprehensive Health Services at Raytheon Health Center, but plans on retiring soon. 

In regards to his education, Dr. Searle graduated with his Medical Degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in 1972. He then completed his internship and residency at the University of North Carolina Hospital, followed by being the Chief Medical Resident at the University Of Utah from 1974 to 1975. 

Emergency Medicine is the branch of medicine concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. As first-line providers, emergency physicians manage patients of all ages with undifferentiated ailments of all types. They are primarily responsible for initiating resuscitation and stabilization and beginning investigations and interventions to diagnose and treat illnesses in the acute phase. Emergency physicians generally practice in hospital emergency departments, but may also work in primary care settings such as urgent care clinics. Emergency physicians may subspecialize in disaster medicine, medical toxicology, ultrasonography, critical care medicine, hyperbaric medicine, sports medicine, palliative care, or aerospace medicine.

Occupational and environmental medicine is perhaps the most wide-ranging of all medical specialties. It is the medical specialty devoted to the prevention and management of occupational and environmental injury, illness and disability, and promotion of health and productivity of workers, their families, and communities. Today, the complexity and pervasiveness of modern industrial processes afford occupational and environmental medicine physicians the opportunity to address work-site and environmental concerns and such community health and policy issues as atmospheric pollution, product safety, health promotion and benefits value management.

When not working, Dr. Searle enjoys swimming, and is ranked 5th nationally for his age group. 

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