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this episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast.

We're now in the end of August, well into clerkship season.

As you know, we've been hitting core content over the last few months.

And that continues today with what is the most common chief complaint in emergency medicine,

adult abdominal pain. And I'm going to assume that most of you already know the basics on taking a history and doing an exam on these patients.

You know, to ask about fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dysuria, you know, to push on the belly and feel for tenderness.

You know roughly what organs are in each

quadrant and some of the common diagnoses like appendicitis and things like that.

We're skipping that today.

What I want us to focus on are a few bonus steps.

These are the steps that are going to get you into that top one-third on your slow.

And the most important thing that you need to remember about abdominal pain

is that old people die from abdominal pain.

The approach to abdominal pain is risk stratification,

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