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Author: Rebeka Barth, MD, Staff Physician, Stanford-Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency, Stanford University School of Medicine
Coauthor(s): Rebecca Smith-Coggins, MD, FACEP, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery/Emergency Medicine, Student Life Advisor, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University
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Updated: Sep 19, 2008

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Keywords

bulimia, eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, AN, binge eating disorder, binge/purge, binge-purge, purging, self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, BN, bulimic, bulimia nervosa, gastric rupture, Mallory-Weiss tear, eating disorder management

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Rebecca Smith-Coggins, MD, FACEP, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery/Emergency Medicine, Student Life Advisor, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University
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