Field Notes: Two questions about headaches that ER doctors always ask—and the one they don’t, but should.
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Headaches are a headache. But even most severe ones are benign, rather than tumors, strokes, or signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. Still, if you go to an emergency room with a headache, your doctors will consider all those possibilities and more. Eventually, you’ll be asked versions of these two questions:
Field Notes: Two questions about headaches that ER doctors always ask—and the one they don’t, but should.
Field Notes: Two questions about headaches…
Field Notes: Two questions about headaches that ER doctors always ask—and the one they don’t, but should.
Headaches are a headache. But even most severe ones are benign, rather than tumors, strokes, or signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. Still, if you go to an emergency room with a headache, your doctors will consider all those possibilities and more. Eventually, you’ll be asked versions of these two questions: