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 focuses on pitfalls in emergency medicine such as confusing a cause with a coincidence, being falsely reassured by false negative tests, or getting burned by illogical assumptions. 

We hope to improve the care you provide your patients and keep you from being an honored guest at your department’s next peer review meeting. 

 or searching “EM Logic” on Apple podcast or “Pregerson” on Spotify.

Dr Pregerson has been practicing emergency medicine since 2000, lecturing and writing about medical topics since 2004, and has reviewed more than 180 malpractice cases since 2008. He is the author of 3 EM pocket references, the creator of 

If you would like to be considered as a guest on a future episode, contact Dr. Pregerson at Safetydoc@gmail.com.

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A man in his 50s is seen in the emergency department for acute LUQ pain. Vital signs are normal and so are results of laboratory studies. What do you see on CT? What's your Dx?

Seen in the ED: Sudden Left Upper Quadrant Pain, Normal Labs

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