Kyle Burch, BA
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Author/Illustrator Information: Kyle Burch, MD, is an emergency medicine resident at Christiana Care in Newark, Delaware (e-mail, Kyle.Burch@ChristianaCare.org). His clinical interests are in emergency medicine, prehospital emergency care, and patient safety.
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Unrealistic scenario
While the comedy of errors depicted in the cartoon is plausible, our ED docs eschew adding problems to the problem list.
Burch K. Annals Graphic Medicine - The “Problem” List. Ann Intern Med. ;167:W47–W52. doi: 10.7326/G17-0007
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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2017;167(9):W47-W52.
DOI: 10.7326/G17-0007