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Emergency Care

Three Emergency Room Myths Debunked

Leigh Vinocur, M.D. | Posted 08.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Emergency Care, Care Access, Er, Healthy Living Body, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Access, ER Visits, Health Care, Emergency Medical Care, Healthy Living News
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.

An alarming new study found that almost one-third of emergency departments have closed in the last two decades. This is particularly troubling when you consider that ER visits are on the rise.

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New Medical Facility Planned for St. Vincent's Site

dnainfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Emergency Care, Rudin Family, NY Around Town, St Vincent's Hospital, New York News

MANHATTAN -- A new medical facility could be coming to the site of the old St. Vincent's Hospital. Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers has agree...

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ACLU Demands Religiously Owned Hospitals Provide Emergency Reproductive Health Care

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic Church, Aclu, Reproductive Health, Emergency Care, Aclu Lawsuit, Medicaid, Medicare, Health Care, Religion News
Angela Bonavoglia

In a dramatic and much needed move, the America Civil Liberties Union has demanded that the federal government step in and require religiously sponsored hospitals to stop endangering women's lives by denying them emergency reproductive health care.

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My $1,547 Hospital Bill For A Rash

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Clinic, Emergency Care, Rash, Hospital Wait Times, Health Insurance, Private Practice, Wait Times, Emergency Room Wait, Health Care Bill, Health Care, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

At the end of August I had a rash. I was visiting a relative at Southampton Hospital on Long Island and decided to stop at the Emergency Room to have it checked out.

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Health Care: Understanding Functional Medicine

Dr. M.J. Wegmann | Posted 12.05.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Emergency Care, Physicians, Medicine, Health Care, Chronic Disease, Health, Alternative Medicine, Healthy Living News
Dr. M.J. Wegmann

Wellness can be described as a state that combines health and happiness. Thus those factors that contribute to being healthy and happy also will be contributing to being well.

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Emergency Physicians Can Trust Their Judgment on Chest Pain Patients

Abhinav Chandra | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Emergency Care, Chest Pain, Angina, Heart Patients, Emergency Room, Academic Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Cardiac Arrest, Heart Attacks, Healthy Living News
Abhinav Chandra

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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