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Dr. W., while on evening call, was awakened from a brief 15-min nap by her pager. She phones the emergency room to find that they have a 60-year-old white female complaining of headache. Dr. W. reluctantly pulls herself together and trudges off to the emergency room (ER).
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Marley, D.S., Mengel, M.B. (1991). Clinical Decision Making. In: Mengel, M.B. (eds) Principles of Clinical Practice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1657-0_5
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