In the July episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss back pain as a red-flag symptom as well as perirectal, perianal, and pilonidal abscesses. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including peritonsillar abscesses and deep space neck infections in Clinical Pediatrics, patella fracture with traumatic arthrotomy in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, reduction of rectal prolapse in The Critical Procedure, cerebral intraparenchymal hemorrhage in The LLSA Literature Review, and right lower quadrant pain in pregnancy in The Critical Image.