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Defining Emergency

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I originally wrote this piece in December, 2010. When thinking about emergency room settings, even, one can easily correlate the words of Webster to what one would necessitate to be a situation requiring emergency medical treatment. Please feel free to share your thoughts and experiences. Broken bones. A heart attack. A cardiac arrest.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

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Please join me and hundreds of medical organizations in standing with AHRQ and preserving its vital contributions to the health of all Americans. ** For the past 30 years, a little-known U.S. You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good. Why do I care?