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In the hospital waiting room, a woman rests her head in her hands to think. (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Why some abortion patients go to the ER

Nicole Karlis
Patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on January 27, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Doctors are disappearing from ERs

Brett Kelman, Blake Farmer - KFF Health News
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A billing expert dissects an ER bill

Bram Sable-Smith - KFF Health News
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When an ER doctor becomes an ER patient

Jay Baruch
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Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

ERs are swamped, though not by COVID

Kate Wells - KFF Health News
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Push to stop surprise ER billing

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
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Violence against ER staffers on the rise

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
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Avoiding pot trips to the ER

Phillip Smith - Alternet
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my flawed trip to the ER

Caroline Shannon-Karasik - Narratively
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Lindsay Abrams
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I can't stop bruising

Lauren Sloss
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