Adrenal Insufficiency and Adrenal Crisis from Emergency Medicine / Endocrine And Metabolic

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  • Howard A Bessen
  • Jonathan Adler
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Edited by Roy Alson, MD, PhD, Medical Director, North Carolina Baptist AirCare; Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Howard A Bessen, MD, Program Director, Professor of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; John Halamka, MD, Chief Information Officer, CareGroup Healthcare System, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Jonathan Adler, MD, Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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تاریخ انتشار 2001