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People successfully understand many sentence structures they would not produce. For users of Mainstream US English (MUSE), one such structure is negative concord, in which two negative items contribute to a single negative meaning (e.g., She didn’t say nothing, meaning ‘She said nothing’). The current study explores how MUSE users interpret negative concord, by compa...

Introduction: Seizures are a frequent reason for emergency department (ED) evaluation, and new-onset events carry a wide differential in which medication toxicity can be overlooked. Toxicity from seldomly prescribed drugs, such as theophylline, can be particularly challenging to recognize because they can cause nonspecific adverse effects, including palpitati...

Introduction: Hip fractures are a concern in older adults, with incidence expected to rise as the population ages. Despite advances in surgical technique and hardware design, complications remain, influenced by patient factors and surgical choices. Rarely, hardware migration into the pelvis occurs, which poses serious risks. In the emergency setting, abdomina...

Introduction: Needle thoracostomy is the only procedure in the United States for paramedic treatment of suspected tension pneumothorax within the most recent emergency medical services (EMS) national scope of practice model. We present a rare complication of an out-of-hospital left needle thoracostomy performed by paramedics after intracardiac placement of th...

Readers find it difficult to reject ungrammatical sentences with two adjacent words transposed (e.g. I met my friend kind at the station), and they sometimes misclassify such sentences as grammatical—a phenomenon known as the transposed word effect. According to the parallel processing model, readers simultaneously process multiple words of a sentence, which...