U.S. Emergency Room waits dangerously long
Patients seeking urgent care in U.S. emergency rooms are waiting longer
than in the 1990s, especially people with heart attacks, U.S.
researchers reported on Tuesday. They found a quarter of heart attack
victims waited 50 minutes or more before seeing a doctor in 2004. Waits
for all types of emergency department visits became 36 percent longer
between 1997 and 2004, the team at Harvard Medical School reported. San Diego cosmetic surgery doctors










