Questions tagged [emergency-room]
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What happens in an emergency room in this situation?
A patient is taken to a hospital's emergency department (the closest one to them) with major trauma and urgently needs surgery for internal bleeding. However, there are no surgeons (for whatever specialty) on call. What will happen here? Is there…
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When should one go to an Urgent care vs Emergency room?
Traditionally, I knew that when one has a medical emergency that can't wait for a doctor's opinion, you go to the emergency room. Now, I see that there are Urgent Care centers around.
So when would one go there vs an actual emergency room? For…
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