The thousands of people who poured into the Remote Area Medical care emergency clinic on one August weekend in Virginia have no health insurance.

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Imagine the last time you waited impatiently in the hospital emergency room, or emergency care clinic.

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On the bulletin board are signs announcing movie showings, free baby-sitting, arts and crafts time and even an emergency dental clinic.

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Now, amid what he says is the most devastating hurricane of his lifetime, Crisco has been doing his job as the head emergency-room physician at the Ochsner Clinic, one of only three hospitals left functioning in the storm-damaged city.

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Imagine the following: your family doctor says you need emergency heart surgery and books you into the top clinic in the country, which is out of state.

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The study also found that 89% of these people were either somewhat or very satisfied with the care they received, and that only 15% went to the emergency room versus a doctor's office or clinic when they got sick.

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Only those who have medically recognised qualifications and training and should carry out cosmetic procedures, such as breast surgery, liposuction and Botox treatment, and in a registered clinic with resuscitation equipment on hand in the event of an emergency, it recommends.

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Without the clinic, "he's definitely somebody we would have been called to see in the emergency room, " said physician assistant Jason Lightbody.

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