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Digestive Disorders:

Nail Down the Right Diagnoses for These Common GI Issues

Published on Mon Jul 13, 2020

 Hint: There may not be a huge difference between epigastric pain and heartburn. Gastrointestinal pain represents one of the most common diagnoses seen in emergency departments, but in some cases, the diagnoses can be hard to identify. Many of these GI-based conditions seem similar to one another, and not every progress note makes it easy to find an accurate diagnosis [...]
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