A&E

American

Trademark.

Arts and Entertainment: a cable television channel.

A & E British

abbreviation

Accident and Emergency (department in hospitals)

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It could be any day in a UK A&E department.

From BBC

Noah Wyle plays Dr Robby, a traumatised, hard-nosed yet deeply empathetic lead physician in the A&E department of a Pittsburg hospital.

From BBC

"Waiting lists are the lowest they've been in three years, more patients in A&E are seen within four hours than for four years, and ambulance response times are the fastest for five years," Streeting said.

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"Working in A&E is really hard. It was hard work planning it and the trains are not cheap."

From BBC

Working busy shifts in a central London A&E department, commuting four hours to and from rural Wales... all while pregnant.

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