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Advice for a Productive Emergency Room Experience

An ER doctor in Texas has some advice, just in case you end up in one of those overcrowded emergency departments. I sense a little sarcasm here: 3) If you want me to take your upper respiratory infection more seriously, tell me that your temperature usually runs low. So when your temperature is 98.6, that […]

An ER doctor in Texashas some advice, just in case you end up in one of those overcrowded emergency departments. I sense a little sarcasm here:

  1. If you want me to take your upper respiratory infection more seriously, tell me that your temperature usually runs low. So when your temperature is 98.6, that is really a fever. In you. Because you know your body.