Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2014) and heeding the call of

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Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2014) and heeding the call ofThis portable guide emphasizes practical management of the most life threatening and common conditions encountered by emergency physicians. It aims to offer a balanced viewpoint advocating the tenets of evidence based medicine. Clinical descriptions are kept concise. Problems are presented using a symptom based approach with the management based on the principles of Emergency Medicine.