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Emergency Ward

McCain healthcare plan - go to Walmart instead of ER

Hey grandpa, they already have Med Clinics. There is a reason why they have McPrices for McMedicine. Are they going to diagnose your pneumonia, mild heart attack, internal bleeding? What about people that need actual ER...

R.I. Volunteers Struck By Ike's Devastation

Posted on: Sunday, 28 September 2008, 15:00 CDT By Amanda Milkovits "I've been to a lot of hurricanes, and this is the worst I've ever seen," says Brooke Lawrence, of West Greenwich. Joanne Ramsey inched the emergency...

Modesto Kaiser Medical Center to open Wednesday

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sep. 28--MODESTO -- All that and more begins at 8 a.m. Wednesday when Kaiser Foundation Hospital Modesto officially opens -- at long last. The hospital wing joins the 2-year-old medical office...

Helpline fails to cut queues

MORE than seven out of 10 people who call the Government-funded healthdirect Australia line end up in hospital or seeing a doctor anyway, statistics show. About 10,000 calls are made to the South Australian branch of the...

Arizona hospital lets ICE terrorize immigrants

The University of Arizona Medical Center (UMC), Tucson’s only tier-one trauma center, is working closely with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to make life for undocumented workers even worse. The hospital has a...

Ambulance technology, coordination with ER help Leesburg Regional Medical Center short-circuit...

Amy C. Rippel | Special to the Sentinel LEEBSURG - With the help of some new technology and some old-fashioned teamwork, a 64-year-old man suffering from a heart attack recently was treated with lightning-fast speed and...

End of an ERa

This week's season opener was a textbook ER adrenalin rush: blood, sex, the death of a key cast member, and incomprehensible medical jargon spilling out of the actors' mouths as easily as cliches. Killing off Dr. Pratt...

7 Local measures on Sonoma Co. Ballot

7 Local measures on Sonoma Co. Ballot SANTA ROSA (BCN) There will be seven local measures on the Sonoma County ballot The Bellevue Union School District in Santa Rosa is asking voters to approve Measure J, a $19 million...

ER Death Points to Growing Wait-Time Problem

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:23 AM EDT Emergency room wait times in many hospitals across the US have become proportionally out of control under our current health care system. This isn't something...

GP Shortage Dooms Campaign

Posted on: Friday, 26 September 2008, 15:00 CDT By HUMPHREYS, Lyn AN EXTENSIVE campaign calling for South Taranaki people to avoid the Hawera Hospital emergency department unless seriously ill is doomed to fail. Since...