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On a regional health system’s telephone triage line, Eric Rhodes, RN, evaluated after-hours symptom calls to decide who required emergency care. He spent 15 years on medical-surgical units before moving to triage nursing. Now a health writer for Biology Insights, Rhodes focuses on acute symptoms and still covers occasional triage shifts.

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