Pleurisy (cont.)
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Author: Christopher P Holstege, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of MedicineCoauthor(s): Nathan P Charlton, MD, Medical Toxicology Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Editor: Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD
Previous contributing authors and editors:
Coauthor(s):
Alexander Baer, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Editors: Michael D Burg, MD, Assistant Clinical
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University Medical Center,
University of California at San Francisco-Fresno; Francisco Talavera, PharmD,
PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Jeter (Jay) Pritchard Taylor III, MD,
Vice-Chief, Compliance Officer, Attending Physician Emergency Medicine Residency, Department of Emergency Medicine, Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital, University of South Carolina.
Last Editorial Review: 10/17/2007
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