The Emergency Room Mismatch

The receipts behind Chapter 10

Waiting in a triage queue will not diagnose your pain. In Chapter 10 I follow a man in agony at two in the morning through the emergency room, show why three in a hundred back-pain patients need that room and ninety-seven are in the wrong one, and explain where a great many long-term opioid prescriptions actually begin. The emergency physicians are not the problem. The missing door is.

The book makes the argument. This supplement shows the evidence, claim by claim: the study, who was in it, the number and where it sits in the paper, what it does not show — and the questions to bring to your own physician. It is written to be handed to your doctor.

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