Dr. Gottlieb is associate professor, ultrasound division director, and ultrasound fellowship director in the department of emergency medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Dr. Long is an emergency physician in the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

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