Moments earlier, the soldier asked the medics to keep his leg from falling off the gurney as they hurried him into the emergency room.

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By way of example, were someone to come into the emergency room for treatment of a nasty gunpowder burn, the attending physician would likely ask how the injury took place.

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He transferred the reams of data files onto a desktop computer, spent weeks figuring out how to pull the chaos of information into a searchable database, and then started tabulating the emergency-room visits of victims of serious assault.

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Before heading to the emergency room, I climbed into the back of the ambulance where I asked her if she wanted me to call her boyfriend.

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The Super Bowl was a favorite platform: Who can forget the 2000 ad in which a man is wheeled into an emergency room?

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He found himself in the basement of one of the city's most famous theatres, the Comedie Francaise, which had been turned into an emergency operating room.

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Boateng says his friend got into a fight, hit his head and had to be taken to the emergency room.

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So along with several other clinics near L.A. and Long Beach, they've started this program to send health workers into the homes to find and reduce exposures, hoping to cut down on emergency room visits and missed school days.

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