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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

When should the emergency physician obtain lab tests to medically clear such patients? There is abundant evidence showing that routine lab tests in such patients have a very low yield and are not indicated, in adults as well as in children. Decades ago, psychiatric complaints in the pediatric ED were infrequent.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? And so I think that’s why it has its moment now even in 2023. So I just can’t keep going.