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All right. This is a special installment in a newer EM quick hit series. We're calling

Med-Mal cases. Now these are going to be real medical malpractice cases, fully adjudicated,

cases that closed a long time ago and so are part of the public record.

We're not here to judge or to assign blame.

We're here to learn because buried inside these cases some really powerful lessons in emergency medicine.

And joining me today is Dr. Mike Weinstock.

He's an emergency physician, adjunct professor at Ohio State, research director at Edina,

co-host of MRAPS UC Max Max, educator, and author of the terrific Bouncebacks series of books, which many of you already know as pretty much required reading for avoiding diagnostic disaster in the ED.

Mike, thanks so much for joining us.

Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be here.

Fantastic. So as we go through this case, I'd like you to feel like you're kind of standing there in the ED, seeing this patient in real time.

I'll reveal the case sort of one piece at a time. And after each piece, Mike's going to walk us through what he's thinking.

And then you should be thinking what you should do as well.

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