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Who uses emergency roomsWhat comes to your mind when you hear the word emergency room? Who really uses the emergency room? Why is the thought of going to the emergency room so scary? When most people think about emergency rooms, all they imagine are scenes of blood, doctors rushing up and down to save patients’ lives and millions of scalpels as they are used to seeing in Hollywood movies.

From Reuters: Walk into any emergency room in the U.S. and you’ll hear a regular din of beeping alarms going off from machines connected to patients. But a new study found only a tiny fraction of t…

Many Americans are turning to technology to detect diseases like Alzheimer's. Learn about the importance of avoiding trips to emergency rooms for loved ones with Alzheimer's and how technology is helping families do just that.

Researchers say a new study provides a unique opportunity for clinicians to learn from online reviews.

From the Daily Progress: As people started to analyze how patients typically are seen in the ED, they noticed that lower-acuity patients — those who were in the ED for a cough or ankle sprain or e…

• I'd expect an emergency physician with 35 years of experience to have some solid insights on why people come to the emergency room. Sure enough, Dr. Paul Auerbach delivers the goods in his Wall Street Journal opinion piece (Why ER Visits for Non-Emergencies Aren't Going Away). In particular: Patients can't easily

When you head into the emergency room, you might assume that the doctors you see are hospital employees who accept the same insurance plans as their employer. But nearly two-thirds of hospitals now…

I feel like most people who are involved in the personal finance niche, either as a contributor or reading admirer, may not necessarily follow within these statistics but the fact is that 2/3 of Americans making between $50k and $100k wouldn’t be able to handle a $1000 emergency. The statistic is even worse for those …

Scored 1-10 for emergency preparedness, New Jersey got 6 and Pennsylvania achieved a 5.