How emergency medicine is like no-limit poker

Kevin

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November 1, 2006

The way doctors and patients size each other up, try to read each others’ hands. Even so, most hands are straightforward — you know how it’ll unfold from the flop. Other times, you have to wait for labs to come back, there are raises and calls. But no matter how benign the situation might start out, you never really know which patient is going to take you “all in.”