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Emergency physicians have the lowest rate of practice ownership among specialties, per the American Medical Association 2020 Physician Practice Benchmark Survey. Only 27.9 percent of emergency physicians reported having an ownership stake in their clinical...

A 68-year-old man presents to the emergency department (ED) with altered mental status and fever. Vital signs on arrival are: Temperature: 38.8 degrees Celsius Heart rate:128 Blood pressure: 74 over 48 Respiratory rate: 10 Oxygen saturation: 77...

By late 1988, 11 Black women had been found dead in the same area of Miami with low levels of cocaine in their blood. Forensic pathologist Dr. Charles Wetli of the University of Miami had conducted autopsies that he said, “conclusively showed that they...

A 33-year-old woman presents with confusion, abdominal pain, and fever. Her vital signs are: Blood pressure of 118 over 93 Heart rate of 120 Respiratory rate of 18 She has a history of lupus. CBC shows a thrombocytopenia of 27 x 109/L platelets....

An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) develops with age, occurring primarily in those older than 55 years. Risk factors include smoking, hypertension, male sex, atherosclerotic disease, and family history of AAA. Although AAA is less common in women, rupture...