Texas ER Did Not Provide Vitamin K Shot That Could Have Saved Newborn’s Life — ProPublica

A Risky Decision: When Baby Gwen was born, her parents decided not to have her receive a vitamin K injection, though it’s been standard practice for decades, and gave her drops instead. 

Desperate Efforts: The emergency room doctor who first treated Gwen tried seven methods to stop the bleeding from her belly button before the baby was transferred to a hospital. 

Questions of Treatment: The family filed a complaint against the ER doctor with the Texas Medical Board, which alleged she didn’t recognize that Gwen had vitamin K deficiency bleeding...

https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-texas-lonestar-emergency-room-nicole-malouf 

Emergency Department Contracts

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hrrMxTZxqEw

 

As LA maternity wards close, patients are giving birth in ERs: ‘There’s no system to care for these women’

More than 35% of US counties are considered maternity care deserts, largely concentrated in rural areas, including in the south and midwest. But cities are not exempt from this trend. Research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that 537 hospitals lost their obstetric services nationwide from 2010 to 2022, 299 of which were located in urban regions. 

The closures are driven partly by cost… 

There's fear that those financial pressures will only increase because of widespread cuts to the federal Medicaid program…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/los-angeles-maternity-wards-closing

 

Home Remedies DONT ALWAYS WORK!!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gk9RLRQvlwI

The ER IS FOR PEOPLE, MA'AM!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yLlavUZZVPI

 

The most REALISTIC Medical Show?!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bEQfp9U_1Ag

Funniest Stories from the Emergency Room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMS8PbLwJhw

Pregnant Woman Left to SUFFER After ER Denies CRITICAL Care

Harry dives into the harrowing story of Kyleigh Thurman, who suffered a devastating ectopic pregnancy and was denied crucial emergency care

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnwoptkPy2k

Hear tense exchange with Justice Alito during abortion arguments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9qJaLFw2OY

Idaho's abortion argument to Supreme Court is offensive to E.R. docs like me

Idaho wants to redefine what it means to acceptably skirt death, but emergency medicine is not a "let's see what happens" practice. We are a "let's take care of this before it gets out of hand" practice...

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-idaho-abortion-ban-rcna148890

Rise in pregnant women turned away from US emergency rooms, papers show | Texas | The Guardian

At Sacred Heart emergency center in Houston, front desk staff refused to check in one woman after her husband asked for help delivering her baby that September. She miscarried in a restroom toilet in the emergency room lobby while her husband called 911 for help. 

"She is bleeding a lot and had a miscarriage," the husband told first responders in his call, which was transcribed from Spanish in federal documents. "I'm here at the hospital but they told us they can't help us because we are not their client."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/pregnant-women-denied-care-us-hospitals

The Real Reason Some Abortion Pill Patients Go to the ER | WIRED

The abortion pill mifepristone went in front of the US Supreme Court on Tuesday. Antiabortionists say an increase in emergency room visits shows it's unsafe. Medical experts disagree...

https://www.wired.com/story/abortion-pill-supreme-court-er-visit-myth-debunk-mifepristone/

Opinion | ‘Violence Has Become a Daily Occurrence In Our Hospitals’ - The New York Times

In some sense, violence in the E.R. is stark evidence of society's broader neglect: a medical system in which mental health beds are scarce, primary care remains elusive and prescription costs soar; a shelter network that's buckling; a country where parents may not make enough to feed their children. All of this can lead to intolerable overcrowding and interminable waiting in the E.R., which can rupture into frustration, anger and incivility...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/opinion/emergency-room-hospitals-violence.html

Cannabis use landing more young people in emergency departments, study finds | CNN

While the report didn't look specifically at the reasons for the increase in cannabis-related youth ED visits, it proposes a variety of possible causes, including using cannabis as a "coping mechanism for pandemic-related stressors" and increased availability of highly concentrated THC products...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/health/cannabis-use-landing-more-young-people-in-emergency-departments-study-finds/index.html

The problem with United Healthcare’s plan to crack down on ER use - Vox

"Too blunt and the wrong problem" is how Tom Tsai, a health policy researcher at Harvard University and a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, succinctly put it to me...

https://www.vox.com/2021/7/1/22557401/united-healthcare-emergency-room-visits-medical-bills

Trump Spins ER Statistic to Claim U.S. Is in 'Great Shape' on COVID-19 - FactCheck.org

... At recent campaign rallies, President Donald Trump has made the misleading boast that the U.S. is in "great shape" because 97% of emergency room visits were for something other than COVID-19...

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trump-spins-er-statistic-to-claim-u-s-is-in-great-shape-on-covid-19/

For many in medical debt, a trip to the emergency room leads to the courtroom - The Washington Post

The people being sued arrived at the courthouse carrying their hospital bills, and they followed signs upstairs to a small courtroom labeled “Debt and Collections.” A 68-year-old wheeled her portable oxygen tank toward the first row. A nurse’s aide came in wearing scrubs after working a night shift. A teenager with an injured leg stood near the back wall and leaned against crutches.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-follow-up-appointment/2019/08/17/1be5ded6-b936-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html

ER doctor suspended for mocking black patient suffering anxiety attack: 'You people come here for drugs' - Raw Story

An emergency room physician working at El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos, California has been put on leave after footage was released showing her mocking a black athlete who suffered a panic attack during a basketball practice. ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/er-doctor-suspended-mocking-black-patient-suffering-anxiety-attack-people-come-drugs/

He went to an in-network emergency room. He still ended up with a $7,924 bill - Vox:

You can't avoid surprise medical bills even with a "PhD in surprise billing." ....
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/23/17353284/emergency-room-doctor-out-of-network

5 Ways to Avoid a Marijuana-Related Trip to the Emergency Room | Alternet

Marijuana won't kill you, but people still show up at ERs because of weed.....
https://www.alternet.org/drugs/5-ways-avoid-marijuana-related-emergency-room-trip