As emergency room doctors nationwide plead for help to ease patient overcrowding, the one federal program that could fix the crisis is poised to lose funding. Across the U.S., ER patients who need to ...

Jackson Health System is expanding its emergency room to improve patient care. Miami Herald file photo Jackson Health, Miami-Dade’s public hospital system, is tripling the size of its emergency room, ...

My mom is notoriously critical of medical shows and movies. And after working in hospitals for over 40 years and as an operating room nurse for over 20 years, who could blame her -- she can't overlook ...

Syracuse, NY – The baby boy came into Upstate University Hospital’s emergency room screaming and struggling to breathe. “A very sick baby coming in,” the intercom crackled. He needed to get to the ...

A slight man falls off his barstool. Now he’s an ER patient, slurring insults and flailing at staff trying to examine him for injuries. When a nurse begs him not to because we don’t know yet whether ...

The brash hospital show ER burst onto television screens in 1994 as part of NBC's famed Thursday night lineup and changed the landscape of medical dramas forever — or at least that's how it seems a ...

NORTH READING - Charles LoDuca of North Reading was stunned when he went to the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital last month. "This is a world-class hospital, and it looks like a ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Emergency room doctors see the worst-case scenarios, the weird fluke accidents, the mysterious ailments ...

Like many people who became obsessed with The Pitt, it inspired me to go back to the beginning and actually watch one of the blueprints for medical dramas: ER. Yes, shockingly, despite a reputation ...

Editor's note: The episode "Night Shift" deals with topics of self-harm and suicide that may be triggering for readers.Long-running medical drama ER, with its 15 seasons and 331 episodes, certainly ...