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Red flags by chief complaint

One section per chief complaint: the can't-miss diagnoses, the critical questions that change your decision, and the physical-exam findings that should change it too. Built around the misses that drive emergency-medicine litigation — the chart has to show you considered them and why you judged them unlikely.

How to use this

This is the thinking layer your ambient scribe can't hear. Walk the red flags, then open the matching Workup pack — it carries these into the validated risk tools (HEART, Wells, PERC, and the rest) and assembles a copy-paste decision-making block. This page is generated from the same data as the builder, so the two never drift.

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© 2026 Kim Trinh, MD. All rights reserved. Educational only. Synthetic examples and generalized teaching — not medical advice. This is a memory aid, not a substitute for clinical judgment or local protocol; the lists are deliberately not exhaustive.