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Blair, MD Resident Physician, Emergency Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California mebooksfree.com 1600 John F. Kennedy Blvd. Ste 1800 Philadelphia, PA 19103-2899 CRUSH STEP 1: THE ULTIMATE USMLE STEP 1 REVIEW, 2nd ed ISBN: 978-0-323-48163-2 Copyright © 2018 by Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous edition copyrighted 2014 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechani- cal, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Details on how to seek permission, further information about the Publisher’s permissions policies and our arrangements with organizations such as the Copyright Clearance Center and the Copyright Licensing Agency, can be found at our website: www.elsevier.com/permissions. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: O’Connell, Theodore X., author. | Pedigo, Ryan A., author. | Blair, Thomas E. (Edward), 1984- author. Title: Crush step 1 : the ultimate USMLE step 1 review guide / Theodore X. O’Connell, Ryan A. Pedigo, Thomas E. Blair. Description: Second edition. | Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017026444 | ISBN 9780323481632 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: | MESH: Clinical Medicine | Examination Questions Classification: LCC RC58 | NLM WB 18.2 | DDC 616.0076--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026444 Content Strategist: James Merritt Content Development Specialist: Angie Breckon Publishing Services Manager: Patricia Tannian Project Manager: Ted Rodgers Design Direction: Renee Duenow Printed in China Last digit is the print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 mebooksfree.com FACULTY REVIEW BOARD Nichole Bosson, MD, MPH, FAEMS Assistant Medical Director Los Angeles County EMS Agency Adjunct Faculty Department of Emergency Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, California Samuel O. Clarke, MD, MAS, FACEP Assistant Professor Department of Emergency Medicine UC Davis Health System Sacramento, California mebooksfree.com This page intentionally left blank mebooksfree.com STUDENT REVIEW BOARD Christopher J. Berg, MD, MS Resident Physician Department of Medicine Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, California Edwin Li, MD Resident Physician Department of Pediatrics Stanford University Stanford, California Virginia Lee Lieu, MD Resident Physician Department of Orthopedic Surgery St. Mary’s Medical Center San Francisco, California Natalie Villa, MD Resident Physician Division of Dermatology Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, California Andrew Yu, MD Resident Physician Department of Neurology Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts mebooksfree.com This page intentionally left blank mebooksfree.com