Emergency Room

E.R. Visits: A Costly Band-Aid for Troubled Students

Richard Buery | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: New York Times, Emergency Room, Mental Health, Health Care, School Nurses, School Medical Centers, School Nurses' Offices, School-Based Health Centers, New York News

Faced with a shortage of resources, educators are increasingly calling 911 when children act out, resulting not only in costly emergency room visits, but a failure to treat the underlying behavioral disorder.

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Service in Resource-Poor Settings

Gifty Maria Ntim | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Emergency Room, Emergency Room Care, Primary Care, Health Care, Health Care Resource Poor Areas, Health Care Bill, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Impact News

Leaving the academic world of residency to work in a community health center has made it apparent how complex it is to serve in a climate where money dictates who, what and how you are able to assist.

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'Next Great Baker': Emergency Room Trip Is Good News?

Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Video, Tlc, Cake Boss, Emergency Room, Buddy Valastro, Tv Replay, Next Great Baker, TV News

A victory for Heather Grubb turned into a loss of sorts on "Next Great Baker" (Mon., 9PM ET on TLC). After coming in the top three in a Christmas dess...

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Astoria Characters: The Wild Things' Foster Mom

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Lou Gehrig's Disease, Jane Goodall, Cable Company, Hippos, Turtles, Emergency Room, Raccoon, Donna Bungo, Squirrel, Gorillas, Police Academy, Security Guard, Wildlife Center, Giraffes, Chimpanzees, Australian Bearded Dragon, Sisters of St. Francis, Bears, Esbilac Puppy Replacer Milk, Forklift, Elephants, Guinea Pigs, Motorcycle, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Telephone Pole, Cat, Rego Park, Wildlife Rehabilitator, Rhinos, Cleveland, Tiffin Ohio, Astoria Characters, Channel Thirteen, Fox, Gay Pride Parade, New York News

Through the years, Donna Bungo has taken in a lot of animals; right now, four five-week-old squirrels are the only rescues in her family.

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ER Crisis: Think, Plan, Act to Get Best Emergency Care in Urgent Situations

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Medical Care, Er, Emergency Room, Dr. Glenn Braunstein, Emergency Room Care, Cedars Sinai, Health Care, Health, Urgent Care, Emergency Room Wait, Los Angeles News

What's ailing our ERs? Simply put, they wrongly have become the venue of last resort for too many people for medical treatment. For many of us, there are better options, including urgent care or even retail clinics.

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The Startling Cost Of Food Allergies

Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Allergy, Food Allergies, Food Allergy Costs, Emergency Rooms, Emergency Room, Doctor Visits, Allergy Costs, Video, Food News

A new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology calculates that doctor visits, hospital care and lost work days due to food al...

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Foxhole Faith: The Value Of Prayer When We Are Vulnerable

Rick Hamlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prayer, Help, God, Foxhole, Religion, Christianity, Emergency Room, Faith, Foxholes, Religion News

What if you haven't talked to God since your now-I-lay-me-down-to-sleep days and you're not even sure God exists and then you're hit with a devastating loss or an emergency trip to the E.R.?

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Toddler Loses Limbs When Infection Worsens During 5-Hour ER Wait: You Can Help

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strep Infection, Amputations, Emergency Room, Donations, Children's Health, Children's Hospital, Sick Children, Emergency Room Wait, Impact News

December, with all of its holiday spirit, shouldn't be a tough month for a 2-year-old. For Malyia Jeffers, however, it started with a feverish, fiv...

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Amy Baxter, Buzzy: 27 Million And Counting

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Lauren Drell | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Diabetic Kids, Video, Medical Devices, National American Academy of Pediatrics, Bee Stings, Buzzy, Pediatrics, Amy Baxter, Emergency Room, Diabetic Children, Diabetes, 27 Million and Counting, Small Business Video, Home News

Starting your own business is a noble -- not to mention exciting, rewarding and often crazy -- undertaking. The experience is an adventure, to say the...

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ER Visits For Concussions Soar Among Kid Athletes

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sports, Kids Health, Kids, Athletes, Emergency, Emergency Room, Concussions, Head Concussion, Healthy Living News

CHICAGO — Emergency room visits for school-age athletes with concussions has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting the intensity of kids' spor...

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ER Docs TEXT Patients Waiting Times

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Er, Emergency Room, Sms, Text Message, Emergency Room Care, Text Messaging, Emergency Room Wait, Text Messages, Technology News

WASHINGTON — Need an X-ray or stitches? Online, via text message or flashing on a billboard, some emergency rooms are advertising how long the d...

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Finding Room for My Emergency

Zack Isaacs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Human Rights, Poverty, Nurses, Health Care Reform, Emergency Room, Doctors, Chicago Hospitals, Chicago News

I spent 10 hours in the emergency room at the University of Chicago's Bernard Mitchell Hospital. I was there seeking treatment for a toe injury, but ended up finding a story.

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Emergency Room Waits, Crowding May Increase Due To Health Care Reform

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care Law, Health Care Overhaul, Er, Emergency Room, ER Wait, Emergency Room Wait, Rand Corp, Politics News

CHICAGO — Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under t...

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In Praise of Public Hospitals

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

Public hospitals have a bad rap. They're viewed by many as hospitals of last resort, and most patients with private insurance do anything to avoid them.

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Health Care Reform: The Big Losers

Rob Kutner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, E-Mail, Emergency Room, Canada, Pre-Existing Condition, Health Care, Medicine, Mayan Calendar, Healthcare, Comedy News

In order to stay within budgetary parameters, many of the key provisions in the Act don't take effect until 2014 -- a full two years after the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world as we know it.

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Extend Section 1011 Funding for America's Emergency Rooms

Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Section 1011, Emergency Room, Healthcare, Baca, California, Politics News

While the debate on health care reform legislation continues, there is very little discussion about the federal government's responsibility to extend a critical funding stream for emergency care in our nation's hospitals.

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Why President Obama's 'Taurus Tax' Is the Wrong Medicine

Drew Westen | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama promised that there would be no middle class tax hikes on his watch. Apparently he's changed his mind.

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Physician's ER Experience Changes His Mind On Health Care

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emergency Room, Health Care Horror Stories, Jack Coulehan, Shingles, Health Reform, Health Care, Er Horror Stories, Impact News

Jack Coulehan is a professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook College in New York. He always shrugged off ER horror stories, arguing that, as a s...

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Joaquin Rivera Robbed While Dying In Emergency Room

Huffington Post/AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Addicts, Philadelphia, Joaquin Rivera Robbed, Esmin Green, Joaquin Rivera, Folk Music, Emergency Room, Joaquin Rivera Dead, Heart Attack, Joaquin Rivera Philadelphia Musician, Video, New York News

UPDATE: Authorities have released footage of the terrible robbery: ******** PHILADELPHIA (Associated Press) - A school counselor suffering an app...

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Debate the Solution, But Don't Deny the Problem

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Emergency Room, Single Payer, Talking Points, Health Care Costs, Oecd, Politics News

I recognize I'm not going to convince all of you to become single-payer supporters through a post here. I've learned to live with that. We will disagree as to the best solutions. But can we at least agree that there is a problem?

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Kids Take Care Of Mom, Lisa Strong, Who Lost Her Arms, Legs (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Strong, Chloe Strong, Amputations, Amputee, Jesse Strong, Medical Malpractice, Emergency Room, Parenting, Kids Take Care of Mom, Kidney Stones, Video, Home News

In the Strong family, it's the children who take care of their mother. Chloe and Jesse Strong are 10 and 11-years-old. They cook and clean. Chloe ...

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Health Care's Front Lines: 24 Hours In The ER

USA Today | Susan Page, Marisol Bello, John Fritze, Mary Brophy Marcus and Liz Szabo, USA TODAY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 24 Hours in the Er, Emergency Room, Emergency Room Care, Health Care Front Lines, Politics News

Dr. Robert O'Connor had taken charge of the emergency room only minutes earlier when the cellphone in his pocket rang: The Western Albemarle Rescue Sq...

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Oh Unlucky Day!

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Virginia, August-4th, Daughter, Mother, Nyack-Ny, President Obama's Birthday, Emergency Room, The Office, Janel Radtke, Superstitions, Healthy Living News

I confess that I dread August 4 each year. Bad things have happened in my life on August 4 -- two cataclysmic events.

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Emergency Physicians Can Trust Their Judgment on Chest Pain Patients

Abhinav Chandra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Emergency Care, Chest Pain, Angina, Heart Patients, Emergency Room, Academic Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Cardiac Arrest, Heart Attacks, Healthy Living News

Sometimes, emergency heart patients could be better served by staying at the hospital and having more tests rather than being treated and released or discharged.

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Simple Math: Keeping People out of the ER = Saving Money

Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hospitals, Emergency Room, Healthcare, Physicians, Time Is Money, Health Care Reform, Health Care Specialists, Health Care, Politics News

I won't bore you with the moral reasons for supporting adequate health care coverage for all Americans. I will appeal to your more pragmatic side: it will save you a lot of money.

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