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Associate Editorial Director's Note: The many heads of CDI review for quality service in healthcare

by Melissa Varnavas

My husband swears he had SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). It happened on an extended weekend trip to Maine, just a few months after the south China outbreak that killed more than 700. He suffered through our trip, and when neither antibiotics nor inhalers helped, his primary care physician took out his trusty otoscope—and after a long look into my husband’s ear canal, declared a minuscule hair agitating the eardrum to be the sole culprit.

 

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