My Night as an ER Patient: How My Headache May Have Prevented A Stranger’s Bone Marrow Transplant

How my headache may have prevented a woman from receiving a bone marrow analyze 7 hours I spent in the Stanford emergency department as a patient, touching on issues of the uncertainty of diagnostic tests, anxiety, unintended consequences, and of course, cost. (Conflict of Interest Statement: I’m on the faculty at Stanford School of Medicine)