With historic snow totals and widespread power outages possible, emergency-management agencies set contingency plans into motion.
The school has briefed you on contingencies, and your emergency-contact cards have been filed in triplicate.
National Guard soldiers were helping pick up emergency-center workers and retrieve operators for pay loaders, he said.
So why not take a preventive health care approach, instead of the emergency-room approach, to financial security?
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Indeed, almost every category of costly medical care went down: doctor visits, emergency-room and hospital visits, drug prescriptions.
Later, she would get on her knees on the emergency-room floor and extract the laces from his shoes.
"We don't have time to stop and write a ticket, " said Chancy Smith, emergency-management director in Dickinson County, Kan.
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All told, an estimated 10 tornadoes hit the region, said Mark Wiley, an emergency-response meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
Dr. Aaronson is an emergency-medicine resident at Harvard and a doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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On Tuesday, Tepco requested 10 GE truck-mounted gas turbines, which can provide temporary power, for use in the emergency-response effort.
Passengers who are physicians provided help in nearly half of the cases, nurses helped in 20%, and emergency-medical technicians in 4%.
Although his father was an emergency-room physician and his mother a registered nurse, neither could identify what was troubling their son.
Health plans would have to pay for pediatricians under both Democratic and Republican proposals, as well as obstetricians and emergency-room visits.
Dr Kitzhaber, a former emergency-room doctor, stands apart from most politicians in America's health debate: he accepts that resources are limited.
Detroit would pose a stiff test for Michigan's emergency-manager system, a controversial tool for municipal overhaul that hasn't had many successes yet.
After twelve months in the program, he found, their emergency-room visits and hospital admissions were reduced by more than forty per cent.
The Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline in 2011 reprimanded an emergency-room physician who posted about her clinical experiences on Facebook.
So, in the spring of 2007, he held a meeting with a few social workers and emergency-room doctors from hospitals around the city.
The reviews will look at the central bank's emergency-lending operations in 2008-09, its inflation-forecasting record and the system for providing money to banks.
Although more and more residents are being given their emergency-alert radios, officials prefer to say that these are in case of bad weather.
Instead they will be using the local media to contact people in an emergency - and, if necessary, going out and knocking on doors.
"We got to the point we had two fans blasting next to our heads so we could go to sleep, " says the 51-year-old emergency-room nurse.
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The debris also struck the assisted-living facility and an emergency-services building where 25 emergency-services volunteers were in class, according to one of the trainees present.
She walks through the emergency-room doors sometime in the early morning.
Researchers recently found that one in three stethoscopes used by emergency-medical-service providers was contaminated with MRSA. Ask your doc to swab his scope with alcohol.
This posed a problem for one study in which doctors gave either Natrecor or a placebo to 237 emergency-room patients and followed them for a month.
In the past, the premiums they paid into a central emergency-fund for bailing out troubled banks were crudely linked to the size of their balance sheets.
If it had universal coverage, the theory goes, uninsured folks would get care sooner--not wait till they have a medical emergency--saving the system a ton of money.
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