Will “Sorry” Work?
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What is an Emergency Physician’s Duty?
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Can I Use Ultrasonography to Rule Out DVT?
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“The doctor will rock you now…”
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A Primer on Neonatal Vesicles
This phone call certainly gets your attention, even in the middle of a busy shift.…
Textbook Obsession
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Space: Emergency Medicine’s Final Frontier
At NASA, the medical specialty most represented in the cadre of astronauts and flight surgeons…
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Jelly Belly
Your next ED patient is a 47 year old male with a history of diabetes,…