emergency room
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Tee is overseen by therapists who can direct a person in crisis to the emergency room or send police to do a wellness check, said Dr. Jon Cohen, Talkspace’s chief executive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
It would certainly be true that those patients never made it inside the emergency room.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2026
Teenager Yenderlin Cabarza waited alone in an emergency room on Thursday, her bones broken by two powerful earthquakes that devastated Venezuela the day before.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
It wasn’t until I got to the emergency room set that I was like, “Oh, this whole period ... ” — the spirituality of that.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
Farmer did all he could with the equipment in his bag, but he knew even the Brigham’s emergency room probably would have failed.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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