Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Cause of death: An overcrowded ER

A registered nurse describes an all-too-common tragedy at public hospitals. Some details of this story have been changed to protect anonymity.

I WORK as a registered nurse in the emergency room of an urban public hospital, and during one recent weekend, two patients died for no reason other than the fact that they were poor and uninsured.

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