emergency medicine
noun
: a medical specialty concerned with the care and treatment of acutely ill or injured patients who need immediate medical attention
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Viktoria Koskenoja, an emergency medicine physician, knocked on the door then greeted her warmly, pulling up a stool across from her.
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Kate Wells, NPR, 8 Apr. 2026
The producers strove to accurately represent the cases, treatment plans, and procedures found in real emergency medicine, and the script makes use of highly technical language (see Decoding Medical Jargon from Television Emergency Rooms).
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Apr. 2026
Lauren Palladino is an emergency medicine physician in New Haven and Bridgeport.
—Dr. Lauren Palladino, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
The supplements out today have an incredibly wide variety of electrolyte concentrations, said Patrick Burns, who practices emergency medicine at Stanford Health Care and occasionally runs in ultramarathons.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
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Kate Wells, NPR, 8 Apr. 2026
The producers strove to accurately represent the cases, treatment plans, and procedures found in real emergency medicine, and the script makes use of highly technical language (see Decoding Medical Jargon from Television Emergency Rooms).
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Apr. 2026
Lauren Palladino is an emergency medicine physician in New Haven and Bridgeport.
—Dr. Lauren Palladino, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
The supplements out today have an incredibly wide variety of electrolyte concentrations, said Patrick Burns, who practices emergency medicine at Stanford Health Care and occasionally runs in ultramarathons.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
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“Emergency medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20medicine. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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