emergency medicine
noun
: a medical specialty concerned with the care and treatment of acutely ill or injured patients who need immediate medical attention
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In 2023, groups representing pediatricians, emergency medicine doctors and addiction specialists complained to California lawmakers that the state had broken its promise to prevent cannabis products from being designed to appeal to children or be easily confused with candy.
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Katie J.m. Baker, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Hey, emergency medicine physicians and hearing aid specialists, come over to Richmond where you're paid highly for your expertise, per U.S. News & World Report.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
Relief work is the immediate disaster response — search and rescue, supply drops, emergency medicine, firefighting.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 15 Jan. 2025
An interruption in treatments could allow HIV to rebound in less than a month, in some cases, and could lead to more resistant strains arising, Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency medicine physician and professor at Brown University School of Public Health, told CNN.
—Hira Humayun, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
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Katie J.m. Baker, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Hey, emergency medicine physicians and hearing aid specialists, come over to Richmond where you're paid highly for your expertise, per U.S. News & World Report.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
Relief work is the immediate disaster response — search and rescue, supply drops, emergency medicine, firefighting.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 15 Jan. 2025
An interruption in treatments could allow HIV to rebound in less than a month, in some cases, and could lead to more resistant strains arising, Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency medicine physician and professor at Brown University School of Public Health, told CNN.
—Hira Humayun, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Emergency medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20medicine. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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