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After a long winter of being cooped up indoors, it’s exciting to finally get outside and have some fun in the sun. Not so fast! Summertime is often known as trauma season in emergency departments. “People are just out more, so there’s more exposure,” says Carlo Reyes, MD, an emergency department physician at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California.
Among the warm weather culprits are bug bites, bad burgers and burns. Read on to learn more about these and other potential dangers of summer.
