Dr. Francis L Counselman MD
Emergency Physician
4092 Foxwood Dr Suite 101 Virginia Beach VA, 23462About
Dr. Francis Counselman practices Emergency Medicine in Virginia Beach, VA. Dr. Counselman assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Counselman examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Eastern Virginia Medical School 1983
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pearls of wisdom from ED leaders.
- A new hazard for windsurfers: needlefish impalement.
- Fourth-year elective recommendations for medical students interested in emergency medicine.
- Patient satisfaction with physician assistants (PAs) in an ED fast track.
- Effect of changes in graduate medical education funding on emergency medicine residency programs.
- Emergency physician practice and steroid use in the management of acute exacerbations of asthma.
- Emergency department time for evaluation of patients discharged with a diagnosis of renal colic: unenhanced helical computed tomography versus intravenous urography.
- The reticulocyte count: is it needed for evaluating typical sickle cell crisis presenting to the ED?
- Internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm masquerading as a peritonsillar abscess.
- Acute thoracic aortic dissection is a true emergency.
- A survey of academic departments of emergency medicine regarding operation and clinical practice: two years later.
- A taste comparison of three different liquid steroid preparations: prednisone, prednisolone, and dexamethasone.
- Pain and sedation.
- Closed head injury in elderly and nonelderly patients.
- Is the presence of Trichomonas vaginalis a reliable predictor of coinfection with Chlamydia trachomatis and/or Neisseria gonorrhoeae in female ED patients?
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