CHICAGO — Emergency room visits for school-age athletes with concussions has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting the intensity of kids' spor...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 ...
President Obama promised that there would be no middle class tax hikes on his watch. Apparently he's changed his mind.
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...
UPDATE: Authorities have released footage of the terrible robbery: ******** PHILADELPHIA (Associated Press) - A school counselor suffering an app...
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...
I confess that I dread August 4 each year. Bad things have happened in my life on August 4 -- two cataclysmic events.
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.
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.
On Independence Day, somebody somehow slipped a pill into my wine glass at a dinner dance, and I left about three minutes before it really hit. Date rape drugs are a weapon.
I was born in New York City. I can remember riding double-decker buses on top for a nickel, and when the Third Avenue subway through Yorkville was an elevated train.
Because you never know where you'll be -- or what you'll be carrying -- when you head to an ER, I highly suggest that you share your medical synopsis with an "emergency healthcare buddy."
Today I'm with two paramedics who are going to help me tell you everything you ever wanted to know about ambulances.
I hope you never need to use the emergency room -- either for yourself or a loved one. But the truth is that there are more than 115 million ER visits...
There is a mentality at work here, whereby the comfortable and complacent regard the suffering of others with undue equanimity. You can't afford regular healthcare, but you can always go down to the ER.
