emergency room
noun
: a hospital room or area staffed and equipped for the reception and treatment of persons requiring immediate medical care
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An emergency room doctor crawled onto a shelf and hid among bags of chips.
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Colleen Slevin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
In the lead-up to Christmas, emergency room doctor Hannah Michaels (Canning) juggles her demanding job and a budding romance with EMT Wes Sullivan (Blain) in Philadelphia.
—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2024
At the clinic, Thurman sat through a counseling session in which she was told how to safely take the pills and instructed to go to the emergency room if complications developed.
—Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2024
The Alameda County Health Department, in a letter to the port, said East Oakland residents, many within the airport flight path, are hospitalized or taken to an emergency room for asthma three times more often than people in other parts of Alameda County.
—Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2024
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Colleen Slevin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
In the lead-up to Christmas, emergency room doctor Hannah Michaels (Canning) juggles her demanding job and a budding romance with EMT Wes Sullivan (Blain) in Philadelphia.
—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2024
At the clinic, Thurman sat through a counseling session in which she was told how to safely take the pills and instructed to go to the emergency room if complications developed.
—Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2024
The Alameda County Health Department, in a letter to the port, said East Oakland residents, many within the airport flight path, are hospitalized or taken to an emergency room for asthma three times more often than people in other parts of Alameda County.
—Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2024
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“Emergency room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergency%20room. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
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