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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The agency partnered on this work with the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, named after an emergency medicine doctor who died by suicide during the pandemic.
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Aneri Pattani, CBS News, 8 July 2025
Prosecutors retained an expert in medical toxicology and emergency medicine, who opined that if paramedics were immediately on the scene, Trinity could have survived.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Moon continued to work in emergency medicine after leaving Freedom House, becoming the assistant chief of Pittsburgh’s EMS division before retiring in 2009.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
State records show that the doctor assigned to treat Maya specializes in emergency medicine and also has hospital privileges at Piedmont Henry Hospital in Stockbridge, Georgia.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
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Aneri Pattani, CBS News, 8 July 2025
Prosecutors retained an expert in medical toxicology and emergency medicine, who opined that if paramedics were immediately on the scene, Trinity could have survived.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Moon continued to work in emergency medicine after leaving Freedom House, becoming the assistant chief of Pittsburgh’s EMS division before retiring in 2009.
—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
State records show that the doctor assigned to treat Maya specializes in emergency medicine and also has hospital privileges at Piedmont Henry Hospital in Stockbridge, Georgia.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Emergency medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20medicine. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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