Several years ago I took care of an elderly woman in the ER. She came in with a chief complaint of chest pain. She came in via ambulance and by the time she got to the trauma bay she said she was feeling a little bit better. She didn’t know she was about to die, usually people who are about to die look much worse.
She looked good, all things considered. …
All people are gifted. As an emergency room physician, I see a wide variety of gifts, such as yodeling, knitting, and swearing (mostly swearing). One gift I rarely see is math. As a whole, the U.S. sucks at math. When compared with other nations, the U.S. ranks 32nd in math (though first in confidence). Despite this, we expect mathematical coherency …
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