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When confronted with a patient with low hb or hematocrit, what is the next level of hematological assessment?

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Kind of anemia: (1) Look at the peripheral smear, how the red cells look. This may give it away. (2) Reticulocyte count. Losing / destroying too many, or making too few?

Answered 2/19/2020

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