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Tag: Emergency Medical Treatment
Emergency Rooms Across Canada Close Amid Nursing Shortage
A nationwide shortage of nurses has caused dozens of emergency rooms across Canada to close temporarily and forced some patients to wait days for a bed.
‘Get the Stretcher!’ Life and Death on Ukraine’s Front Line
On another day of scorched-earth artillery barrages in the east, a team of Ukrainian medics did their best to stabilize and assure the survivors, with the din of war all around.
In Ukraine, Gruesome Injuries and Not Enough Doctors to Treat Them
Operating with skeleton crews, doctors and nurses race to save limbs, and lives. It’s a grim routine for medical personnel often working around the clock. And not all limbs can be saved.
Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
Palestinian Gunman Kills 5 in Israel’s Fifth Attack in Recent Days
The attack in a Tel Aviv suburb brought the number of people killed in the past two weeks to 11, making it one of the deadliest periods in Israel in several years.
As Fighting Gets Closer, a Kyiv Hospital Treats the War’s Atrocities
As Russian bombings have grown more indiscriminate, hospitals in Ukraine have become perilous places to work.
Doctors Strike Over Understaffing Disrupts Delhi Hospitals
While the country’s overall case count remains low, daily infections in the capital region have risen by more than 300 percent over the past two weeks.
Long Island E.R. Closes as Vaccine Mandate Creates Nurse Shortage
A free-standing emergency department in Long Beach, operated by Mount Sinai South Nassau, said it had to close temporarily because of a nursing staff shortage.
Covid’s Relentless Strain on a Melbourne Hospital
From sadness to irreverent laughter, one emergency room doctor explains what it feels like to practice medicine in the epicenter of Australia’s latest outbreak.