Hospitals, Doctors Work to Cut Patients' Wait Time
Augusta Chronicle, The › March 23, 2007
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CHICAGO - Beatrice Vance died of a heart attack. The coroner says waiting in the emergency room helped kill her.
The 49-year-old woman's chest was tight with pain when she walked into the ER at Vista East Medical Center in Waukegan, Ill., last July. A blood clot had lodged in her heart.See the full content of this document
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Hospitals, Doctors Work to Cut Patients' Wait Time
It was 10:15 p.m. when Ms. Vance checked in, a coroner's report shows. She was told to wait for a doctor. So she waited. At 12:25 a.m., she collapsed, her heart starved of blood flow.
Doctors rushed to treat her, but she had no pulse. It was too l...See the full content of this document
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