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Lives I Saved This Week, and Other Reflections Upon Medicine

by Ara Downey The first life I saved this week was when I was taking a history from a patient when an alarm went off. Using my exceptional medical knowledge, I quickly determined the source of the alarm was the IV pump detecting a blockage. A blockage! Fortunately, I was

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