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"Alas, when all is said and done, we do not know the proportion of all visits to emergency rooms that are indeed emergencies. The most recent government statistics would have us believe that only about one in ten are nonurgent. Our best guess would be somewhere between one-third and one-half. So what is the problem? Is "nonurgent" the same as "inappropriate?" Is it wrong to have a medical safety net—a place where medical care is a civil right extended to all? One problem is cost." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Eventually, there was simply no place for patients to go but the parks, the bus stations, the public libraries, the emergency rooms, and the homeless shelters. Deinstitutionalization coincided with the arrival of AIDS and the emergence of "crack" cocaine in the early 1980s, and the numbers of the homeless mentally ill rose dramatically across the country. Both Asylum Psychiatry and Community Psychiatry have been swept away by a new Corporate Psychiatry." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Indeed, many hospitals have closed their emergency rooms; others turn away ambulances or "dump" patients who require critical care and cannot pay—leading to what one critic calls "no room at the inn."12 Still other hospitals have cut available emergency room services, resulting in long waiting lines. We have completed our consideration related to the second function of EDs—that is, as a medical safety net. We turn now to an assessment of emergency medicine's efficacy for those who have medical problems, perhaps life-and-death problems. LIFE OR DEATH?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "According to one study of ten emergency rooms, 2% of patients with acute myocardial infarction (serious heart attacks)— and another 2% with unstable angina (a precursor to serious heart attacks)—were inappropriately discharged.2' Each one of these mistakes is reprehensible; each must be understood, and in so doing, effort must be made to avoid further errors. Having said that, we do not and cannot live in a society without error. Heart disease may have an array of presenting symptoms, and therefore a success rate of 98% should not be too quickly criticized." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Those deaths, occurring quietly, almost without notice in hospitals, emergency rooms, and homes, make medicines one of the leading causes of death in the United States. On a daily basis, prescription pills are estimated to kill more than 270 Americans—more than twice as many as are killed in automobile accidents. Prescription medicines, taken according to doctors' instructions, kill more Americans than either diabetes or Alzheimer's disease. America has become "a grossly overprescribed nation," says Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Doctors treat drug-induced injuries every day in emergency rooms all over the country. One study found that as many as 28 percent of all emergency visits were related to medications. And the most vulnerable group of patients are, not surprisingly, older people. Roughly half of Americans ages sixty-five and older take five or more different drugs or supplements every week. Twelve percent use ten or more different brands of pills every week. In part, the elderly use more drugs because they have more chronic illnesses. Dr. Jerry H." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"About 335,000 people a year die of sudden cardiac arrest in hospital emergency rooms or before they ever receive medical attention. Think Inflammation, Not Cholesterol Cardiovascular disease (CVD) can kill in an instant by heart attack or stroke. Fifty percent of the time, the very first symptom is cardiac arrest. Without warning, half of all people who have the disease die without ever knowing they had it." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Plaque rupture can lead to three potentially devastating events: acute heart attack, death from arrhythmia (the heart stops or races wildly because of electrical instability due to the sudden loss of oxygen), and, if it occurs in the carotid arteries or the brain, a stroke. In emergency rooms and coronary care units, we apply clot-busting medication to alleviate the clot component of arterial obstruction. Then we do bypass surgery or dilate the narrowing and place a stent. This saves lives and limits heart muscle damage. The size of the lesion means far less than its stability." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"When I worked in emergency rooms and acute treatment hospitals, approaching the most disturbed patients in a peaceful and reassuring manner almost always worked. Few of my colleagues felt they had enough time for it, when in reality they lacked the interest, skill, and patience for relating to very disturbed people in a caring manner. It would not have dawned on them to behave like my friend who helped his hospitalized, sleeping-walking father by gently interpreting his dream content so that he felt comfortable returning to bed." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"One thousand six hundred ninety-five patients were treated in emergency rooms and 16 fatalities were reported. When patients vomit organophosphate pesticides, ER rooms are instructed to treat the liquid as a "hazardous chemical spill." Organophosphate pesticides are used on 71.6 percent of apples, 59.6 percent of cherries, 37.2 percent of pears and 27.1 percent of grapes. They break down quickly in the environment, but overexposure can lead to blurred vision, difficulty walking and death. Hydrogen cyanamide is a toxin that can induce nausea, vomiting and parasympathetic hyperactivity." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"As it happens, emergency rooms have two separate roles within the health care system. The first is the obvious one, as providers of emergency care. Thus, as in all other chapters, we ask: what actually happens in the ER?3 and how many lives are saved? The second role of the ER is a safety net provider for vulnerable populations: the uninsured, those on Medicaid, and minorities. The question for this book then becomes: Is this latter function appropriate for the ER? and how does this second role affect the first one? Let us examine this second set of questions first." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, more than a hundred emergency rooms around the country have closed in the past decade, victims in part of rising rates of uninsured patients appearing at their doors. At hospitals that have kept their emergency doors open, administrators have not been eager to add the additional ER beds that are often so desperately needed, because that would mean caring for more uninsured (and unprofitable) patients. Many cities now face a shortfall of emergency services, and hospitals routinely divert ambulances because their emergency departments are completely full." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In the year 2004, eighty thousand people went to emergency rooms with prescription drug overdoses (usually tranquilizers, like Valium and sedatives). 294 Michelle Meadows, "Why Drugs get pulled off the Market," http://www.fda. gov/fdac/features/2002/102_drug.html 295 Thromboembolism: the blocking of a blood vessel by a blood clot dislodged from its site of origin 296 http://www.healthcentral.com/ency/408/guides/000010.html 297 "FDA accused of silencing Vioxx warnings," see http://www.msnbc.msn." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In the month of December 2003 alone, emergency rooms were on divert status for 1,935 hours. That's the equivalent of nearly eighty-two days. I caught up with Patrick Campbell in June 2006, when he was living in Eugene, Oregon, pulling twelve-hour shifts as a hospitalist overseeing the care of patients admitted to Sacred Heart Medical Center. When I spoke with Campbell over the phone, he recalled the events shortly after the FBI's 2002 raid in a tone of voice that veered between incredulity and resignation. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Driving records, accidents, admittances to emergency rooms resulting from low blood sugar — all confirm a significantly increased risk when human insulin is used. This increased risk for the patient caused by use of human insulin or its synthetic analogs is significant in another respect: The risk comparison between human and animal insulins has always been based on mono-component pork (porcine) insulin. Diabetic practitioners and patients have always known a depot of pork insulin injected under the skin results in a more problematic release into the user's body." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"And emergency rooms routinely give aspirin to patients they suspect may be experiencing a heart attack. If they don't administer aspirin, it is considered a major faux pas. Over the last 50 years, evidence of aspirin's heart-protective effects has continued to accumulate. Two major reviews in prestigious medical journals (the British Medical Journal and Annals of Internal Medicine) analyzed the benefits and risks of aspirin. The British investigators reviewed nearly 300 clinical trials involving aspirin." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Health care is available for anyone at government expense (though partly paid for by corporations), and there are adequate hospitals, hospital beds, emergency rooms, nurses and doctors. Doctors have embraced not only allopathic medical techniques, but homeopathic and energetic treatments, blending both and determining what is best to help the patient recover. Pharmaceutical manufacturers are selling their products at affordable prices, and they are making some "unprofitable" products simply because they are important for community wellness." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"I've been to the university hospital, all the other hospitals and emergency rooms, the best urologists—everything. I've had regular surgery and lithotripsy. They've had me on a low-calcium diet for years—no dairy at all. I've taken diuretics and other drugs, nothing works. I just keep having kidney stones. I might have missed one or two, but last time I counted I've had at least 47—that's more stones than I have years! Anna here keeps telling me maybe changing what I eat and taking some vitamins will help, but how can that be?" - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"At times, the constipation had been so bad that he went to hospital emergency rooms. One physician had recommended surgery to remove the colon if things did not improve. He was referred to me, and we began to focus on his fear of not being able to defecate and to address the other issues in his life, which included complicated family relationships and job insecurity. He began to see a psychotherapist and began to recognize his extreme perfectionism, the low self-esteem that was behind it, and how the tension in his life related to the symptoms." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Of the children taken to emergency rooms, almost one in 10 were hospitalized or transferred to another facility for specialized care, according to the report. "Medications are far and away the most common ingestions for which children are treated in the emergency department," says study coauthor Dr. Dan Budnitz, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"You may operate your hospitals, your doctors' offices, or your emergency rooms on a first-come, first served basis, by appointment only, or any other way you see fit. You can offer free drugs; you can offer costly drugs. You can offer free nursing home care for the aged; or, as in the novel Soylent Green, you can have old people euthanized when they outlive their usefulness. You may guide medical research in any direction. Every facet of medical care merits your expertise, because right now greedy pharmaceutical corporations have that goal in mind — complete control." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Radiologists appreciate that we could be creating more cancer in young people by what happens in emergency rooms all over the country today." Heron referred me to a surprising new advocate on this issue. In a 2007 white paper on radiation in medicine, the American College of Radiology noted that in the past quarter century, the amount of radiation the U.S. population receives each year from medical imaging has increased fivefold. A single computerized scan of the stomach today can give half the dose that was shown to induce cancer in those who survived the atomic bomb blasts in Japan." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"In the month of December 2003 alone, emergency rooms were on divert status for 1,935 hours. That's the equivalent of nearly eighty-two days. I caught up with Patrick Campbell in June 2006, when he was living in Eugene, Oregon, pulling twelve-hour shifts as a hospitalist overseeing the care of patients admitted to Sacred Heart Medical Center. When I spoke with Campbell over the phone, he recalled the events shortly after the FBI's 2002 raid in a tone of voice that veered between incredulity and resignation. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Meanwhile, more than a hundred emergency rooms around the country have closed in the past decade, victims in part of rising rates of uninsured patients appearing at their doors. At hospitals that have kept their emergency doors open, administrators have not been eager to add the additional ER beds that are often so desperately needed, because that would mean caring for more uninsured (and unprofitable) patients. Many cities now face a shortfall of emergency services, and hospitals routinely divert ambulances because their emergency departments are completely full." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Some 200 Americans die each year, and another 10,000 are treated in emergency rooms, for carbon monoxide exposure from leaking furnaces, gas ranges, and water heaters. Early signs of carbon monoxide poisoning are sometimes misdiagnosed. One way to protect yourself is to invest in a carbon monoxide detector. These can be purchased at hardware stores. Q See hypoglycemia; migraine; and tmj syndrome, all in Part Two. See also pain control in Part Three." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "Considerations Q People with anxiety disorder, especially those who experience acute attacks, often seek medical assistance in hospital emergency rooms only to be told they are just suffering from stress and that everything will be fine with rest. In one study, up to 70 percent of people who had panic attacks were found to have seen ten or more different physicians before being correctly diagnosed." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"ER: Enter at Your Own Risk—How to Avoid Dangers Inside emergency rooms. New Horizon. Coping with Health-Care Conflicts Abraham Verghese, MD, director, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is author of My Own Country: A Doctor's Story. Simon & Schuster." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"In fact, it is used in emergency rooms to treat Tylenol overdose and liver failure, and to prevent kidney failure for patients in hospitals getting X-rays or angiograms using dye, which can damage the kidneys.Taking this as a supplement can boost the body's own glutathione, which is one of the critical antioxidants that protect the mitochondria. • ?500 to 2000mg a day NADH This is another little molecule the body makes that can get depleted, part of the critical energy production process in the mitochondria." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Chemotherapy patients are more likely to be hospitalized or visit emergency rooms for side effects related to chemotherapy, such as fever, infection, nausea, diarrhea, malnutrition, dehydration or low white blood cell or low platelet count. [J National Cancer Institute 98:1108-17, 2006] Chemo brain Most cancer drugs cannot discriminate between healthy and cancerous cells. They damage both. Patients can never get back to a state of wellness during chemotherapy. Brain tissues are particularly vulnerable." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Therefore, the hospitals and emergency rooms are plentiful, affordable, well staffed and well equipped. There are enough beds for anyone who needs one and available specialists to treat whatever the condition requires. Doctors and healers, in fact, collaborate around the world via the Internet and teleconferencing. All healthcare is covered ?office visits, hospital stays and prescriptions. Government-funded healthcare is available for everyone with wealth no longer spent on military activities around the world. Insurance companies are no longer needed." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

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