Summary: Today's emergency rooms are being used as a safety net for a healthcare system that leaves tens of millions of Americans uninsured-and that net is about to break. Because ERs are required to treat every patient who comes through the door, people with nowhere else to turn are joining the critical-care crowd. This ABC News program reports on America's emergency room crisis, in which many ERs,...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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