Afterword: High Success Approach
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Priorities
When evaluating a patient, the clinician should try to consider all threats to life, organ, and limb, and systematically rule them out. Many entities can be ruled out by history and physical; some will require ancillary testing or even admission. Mentally considering life, organ, and limb threats is probably the best way to avoid missing them.
Summary
Unfortunately, bad outcomes will continue to occur in emergency medicine, despite the best efforts of the competent emergency physician. It is to be hoped that this issue provides some information that will help patients avoid bad outcomes and help emergency physicians avoid litigation.
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