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“Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me...?”

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Night shifts and other “off- hour” coverage have been a sine qua non of emergency medicine even before EM became a recognized medical specialty in 1979. At that time, few other specialties provided 24-hour in-house attending physician coverage.


 

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