Primary care has a dual meaning

One year ago (read: before intern year), pretty much the most exciting part of my fourth-year emergency medicine rotation was having my pager go off. BZZZZ! I leapt into action, excitingly reading the text page: “Leg lac in E9.” I was on it.

Suture kit in hand, I burst through E9’s thin emergency department curtains with abandon; I was going to fix this. The “leg lac” turned out to be a …

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