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A Pearl From Medical School

A Country Doctor Writes

I ordered some lab tests, including a sed rate. Before he ever got the test, he ended up in the emergency room with pneumonia. That could have explained the abnormal lab result. A few weeks ago I saw a man who wasn’t feeling well. It came back at 100 mm, five times the normal limit.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

Some family doctors choose to do a fellowship and are trained more specifically to do more advanced surgical procedures, deliver babies (including C-sections), work on public policy and advocacy, work in an emergency room, and the list goes on.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. And then one day when I was in my third year of medical school, I was in the gym and I hurt my back in a really horrific way. I heard this loud click. I couldn’t move any of my body.