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at www.gitfreed.a.i. Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson and today is another huge topic.

It's actually the fifth most common complaint that comes into the emergency department.

I'm going to give you the approach to headache so you can crush your emergency medicine

clerkship and get top one-third on your slow. Now in this episode, there's one thing I want you to

understand about headaches. Now, unlike this episode, there's one thing I want you to understand about headaches.

Now, unlike lots of these other core chief complaints, like chest pain and shortness of

breath, where you order tests on virtually every single patient, with headache, it's

totally the opposite.

It's all about the history and exam. Your attendings are actually

going to only end up testing about a quarter of these headache patients at all. The majority of

cases they simply treat symptomatically. This is great news for you, because this means that every

patient with a headache has the potential

to really boost your slow. And here's why. Because this is a complaint you're going to see

several times and your history and exam as a med student is incredibly incredibly valuable to your attending because their ears are going to perk when they hear you say certain key phrases, and they are going to be very, very impressed when they hear certain red flags that you mention during your presentation.

So let's get started. Let's go through this. Step one in your approach to headache. As we've done in

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