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Amal Mattu on Low Risk Chest Pain

Feb 19, 2015

Something very cool is happening in emergency medicine, specifically low risk chest pain. What I mean by that is figuring out who is low risk and what to do about it. This is one of the biggest areas of CYA, for the uninitiated, cover your ass, medicine. And for good reason, it’s a big cause of lawsuits and if we get...

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Revenge of the Nerd: Coronary CT? Ehhh, no.

Feb 15, 2015

Guest post by Rory Spiegel, A.K.A Captain Basil, A.K.A EM NERD

In today’s age of Modern Medicine, we consistently favor the objective findings provided by medical technology over the more subjective judgments of the experienced clinician. Yet the precision of these tools has rarely demonstrated superiority when...

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