Clinical Review
Adventures in Gold Mining: Extracting a Diagnosis
Emergency Medicine. 2012 August;44(8):4-6, 13
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Lewis S. Nelson, MD, FACEP, FACMT (Series Editor), Ross Sullivan MD, and Christine Stork, PharmD
A 36-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a 1-week history of nausea and vomiting after a recent trip to Mexico, where he participated in extracting gold from ore. Why is gold extraction potentially poisonous, and how should this patient be treated?