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Pain Management of Common Chief Complaints in the ED

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Jafar Mahmood, MD (Pain Medicine Attending, Paincare Medical Practice) // Reviewed by: Jessica Pelletier, DO, MHPE (EM Attending, APD, University of Missouri-Columbia), Marina Boushra, MD (EM-CCM Attending, Cleveland Clinic); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Introduction: Pain management in the ED can be a unique challenge.

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Tips for Working With Interpreters in the Emergency Department

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9 Being bilingual is often not enough to be a medical interpreter, which requires precision, experience, and knowledge of medical jargon, as well as culturally specific idioms and phrases. Reevaluation of the effect of mandatory interpreter legislation on use of professional interpreters for ED patients with language barriers.