Enlarge this image Francisco Hidalgo prepares to receive a trigger point injection from Dr. Alexis LaPietra (right) at St. Joseph’s University Medical…
Emergency Room
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Enlarge this image Women are catching up with men nationally in overall drinking, as well as in binge drinking, drunk driving and…
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Enlarge this image Dr. Winston Watkins, an internist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston, volunteered to do a shift in the…
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Enlarge this image As baby boomers age, more older Americans are visiting the emergency room, which can be an overcrowded, disorienting and…
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Credit: Chris Nickels for NPR Sometimes, even professionally compassionate people get tired. Kristin Laurel, a flight nurse from Waconia, Minn., has worked…
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Enlarge this image Although expanding Medicaid in Oregon didn’t drive down the recipients’ overall use of hospital emergency rooms, the state has…
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Enlarge this image Too often, pediatricians say, the teen depression that went undiagnosed in the community shows up in the ER as…