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Emergency Ward

No Fiji Day joy for frustrated patients

YESTERDAY's Fiji Day celebrations did not go down well with people who turned up for treatment at the CWM Hospital. About 30 frustrated people waiting outside the hospital's emergency ward expressed concern to The Fiji Times...

PBMC Welcomes Dr. Colin Coor

By Pen Bay Healthcare Christopher Burke, 594-6715 ROCKPORT (Oct 10): Dr. Colin Coor has joined the active medical staff in the Emergency Department at Penobscot Bay Medical Center. A native of Burlington, Vt., Coor is a...

Hospital statistics 'worth nothing'

Mike Steketee, National affairs editor | October 11, 2008 THE NSW Government has an explanation for why some public hospitals are failing to see most of their urgent patients on time -- it does not believe its own health...

SCOLR Pharma Announces Completion Of Patient Enrollment And Dosing For Pivotal Clinical Trial...

SCOLR Pharma, Inc. (Amex: DDD) announced the completion of patient enrollment and dosing for the third of its three pivotal trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its formulation of 12-hour extended-release (ER)...

Emergency Department expansion at Ellis

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- The expansion of the Nott Street Emergency Department at Ellis Hospital has been completed. Starting today, 11 new emergency treatment rooms at Ellis Hospital are open to patients. More doctors and nursing...

False Names Used By Uninsured Emergency Department Patients

The Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, as part of a series titled "Falling Through: Casualties of the Health Insurance Crisis," examined how some emergency department patients register under false names because they do not have...

Barriers To Angioplasty For Life-Threatening Heart Attacks In Florida: Women, The Elderly And...

Women, the elderly, and patients admitted to the emergency department on weekends are all less likely to receive same-day coronary angioplasty for a life-threatening heart attack in Florida, University of South Florida...

Getting Emergency Care Under a Fake Name

Posted: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Updated: October 9th, 2008 05:56 PM EDT Getting Emergency Care Under a Fake Name Open Airways: Stories from the back of the ambulance EMS responders share some of the most meaningful cases of...

Our hospital systems are broken

On September 20, Mike Herrera checked into the waiting room at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas (The same hospital that Kennedy was brought to when he was shot). He was complaining of a stabbing sensation in his...

Well, crap

Mike's getting over the flu. I'm on my 3rd day of Tamiflu so kind of keeping it at bay. Charlie's on his 2d day of godawful-bronchial-thing. Yesterday we took him to the emergency room when he was wheezing, and the sucked a...