A Day of Chaos at the Hospital: Patients on Floors and Field Gurneys, Doctors Scavenging for Supplies
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Sawing through the door of an abandoned laboratory, scavenging for oxygen machines at the airport and crafting makeshift IV medicine bag hooks out of tent pegs.
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Wayne Owens and Frank Richards say a dated medical-technology system is in a state of emergency.
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Sometimes it's tough for patients to tell the whole story.
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One year after Hurricane Katrina tore  into New Orleans, the region's hospitals and nursing homes  remain devastated and uncertain of their ability to cope with  another disaster.
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Doctors and their patients in many countries are facing increasing problems receiving lifesaving isotopes for treating a range of illnesses.
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Workers at an inner-city hospital where a woman died last month on the floor of an emergency room have received training on their responsibilities, officials said.
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In a bid to free up blocked beds, patients are being discharged from hospital against their needs, a report shows.
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Blood swirled in knee-deep flood waters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue yesterday. Carcasses of pigs, goats, and
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In Baghdad's largest hospitals, overworked, underpaid Iraqi physicians and nurses see hundreds of patients per day, roughly half of whom are victims of the city's strife.
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New ventilation units blast curtains of purified air between patients and nurses in Washington Hospital Center's emergency room. Outside, yellow tarpaulins and water taps can decontaminate people on the sidewalk.
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Firefighters responded to reports of a fire at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday morning, and a security supervisor said parts of the hospital were being evacuated.
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Most physician-owned specialty hospitals are poorly equipped to handle medical emergencies, federal investigators will report today, underscoring a long-standing concern about the rapid rise in the number of such hospitals.
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In this nation beset by violence, disease and environmental devastation, weary relief workers struggled yesterday to gauge the magnitude of the latest disaster
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New York hospitals are spending hundreds of millions of dollars rebuilding and expanding their emergency rooms.
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Whether its blue or spotted or stripped, the standard issue hospital gown is drafty and revealing. It's embarrassing for just about anyone who's spent a night in a medical center.
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Emergency room doctors warned of a &quot;perfect storm&quot; in hospitals due to a flu vaccine crisis on Monday, and politicians watched anxious
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.