In Seattle, the county government estimates the 40 most severe alcoholic homeless, cost it tens of thousands of dollars each year, in emergency room and other services.
Patients showing up in the emergency room in agony were often overlooked or treated by unqualified clinicians.
Dr. MADHI: Well, because first of all, because I'm a doctor, and I worked in the emergency room in Baghdad for a long time.
When Lores arrives at the hospital compound, a teenage boy is waiting in the emergency room, his arm in heavy bandages.
From the moment she arrived in the emergency room that Friday morning in February, the train of events ran against a peaceful ending.
Add diagnostic error in the emergency room and walk-in clinics to error in the out-patient offices of medicine and you have more than 200 million errors.
Working alongside Segatore in Tent A was Jim Asaiante, a nurse in the emergency room at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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As she waited and cried in the emergency room at Beth Israel, she looked down and saw that, in her rush, she had put on one pink sock and one gray.
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Dr. MADHI: I've experienced this once when I was working in my emergency room.
He didn't feel better, and by New Year's Day Bryce was in the emergency room.
And we want to make sure that they are not sick in the emergency room.
Suicidal patients end up in the emergency room, where there is no clear standard besides hospitalization.
Someone would come in the emergency room with an emergency heart attack, needed immediate procedure.
Is it any wonder, then, that many Medicaid patients get their routine care in the emergency room?
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Physicians in the emergency room diagnosed irritable bowel syndrome and sent her home.
When you wind up in the emergency room, do tell your doctor about every medicine that you are taking.
Others arrive dead, and others die while they are in the emergency room.
"It is an absolutely horrifying scene, " said Comilla Sasson, an attending physician who was working in the emergency room at the hospital.
Without the clinic, "he's definitely somebody we would have been called to see in the emergency room, " said physician assistant Jason Lightbody.
Which is a good thing, because we don't want anyone ending up in the emergency room this week if we can help it.
But her light bulb moment didn't come until she was driving home from work, tired after an all-night shift in the emergency room.
Dr. Louis Chaykin, who was on call that night to treat another patient, remembers seeing Edwarda and her mother in the emergency room.
"I remember the words the daughter told the mother when she was lying in the emergency room: 'Don't ever leave me, '" the doctor says.
The family says that they couldn't get a physician to examine Malyia and that the five-hour wait in the emergency room nearly killed her.
Staff at Queens General Hospital alerted police detective early Wednesday that a woman in the emergency room had reported being assaulted and raped, the official said.
It's not only the security forces, but everybody thinks that they have the priority to get the treatment, and really there is no control in the emergency room.
He was in an emergency room suffering from kidney stones.
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Nothing much is being done for the 40m Americans who, like the jail-birds on their trolleys in Los Angeles, have to take their chances in the emergency room.
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If you wound up in the emergency room far from home, unconscious, how would a physician find out if you were allergic to certain drugs, or had medical conditions they needed to know about?
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