Title: POCUS: Appendicitis (Submitted by Alexis Salerno)<br/>Author: Michael Bond<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/78/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><div class="x_elementToProof" data-ogsb="rgb(255, 255, 255)" data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;">
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;">Let’s give a shout out to Reed Macy, who diagnosed appendicitis in a male with vomiting and abdominal pain! </span></p>
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