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The Sunday before Christmas, a physician-manned ambulance is deployed early in the morning with the message: “lifeless person”. When we arrived, the husband of the patient greeted us and led us into the garden. There we find the hanged wife of the man; she is not even 50 years old.

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  1. Day Clinic at the Ocean, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Petra Tietze-Schnur

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  1. Klinik für Anästhesie, Medizin Campus Bodensee, Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Volker Wenzel

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Tietze-Schnur, P. (2023). Quarantine. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_56

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