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The Fast Track area of our Emergency Department is like a walk-in clinic; one cubicle after another – most with curtains too short for problems

[Triage Note: 45 year old male, vomiting for two days. Abdominal pain] Dr. Stephen Cluff is like Yoda. Actually, judging by body hair, he’s more like

[Triage Note: 55 year old woman. Found unconscious by boyfriend at 17:30. Labored breaths. Paramedics performing CPR en route. Pulses present. No spontaneous resps. No

[Triage Note: 45 year old woman, appendectomy earlier in the day, discharged; pain, right upper quadrant, 50 minutes] Monday morning. As I click through the

[Triage Note: Cold for a few days, today not bearing weight on left leg. Usually healthy. No injury. Cannot elicit tenderness] It’s the beginning of

[Triage Note: 29 yo bicycle accident ten days ago. Has lower back pain, worsening] It’s early fall and baseball fever has taken over the E.R. Someone has