After suffering an injury or experiencing symptoms, doctors say the best place to get care depends on what you need treated.

Injuries, infections, and headaches can leave you with one very important question: Should I go to the emergency room? Mishaps happen, and our bodies do strange things. And when you’re experiencing ...

As emergency room doctors nationwide plead for help to ease patient overcrowding, the one federal program that could fix the crisis is poised to lose funding. Across the U.S., ER patients who need to ...

Syracuse, NY – The baby boy came into Upstate University Hospital’s emergency room screaming and struggling to breathe. “A very sick baby coming in,” the intercom crackled. He needed to get to the ...

The ER is for emergencies—we know this. But which health conditions classify as "emergencies" can be confusing. It's important to know the guidelines for coming into the ER. Emergency physician Dr.

A slight man falls off his barstool. Now he’s an ER patient, slurring insults and flailing at staff trying to examine him for injuries. When a nurse begs him not to because we don’t know yet whether ...

My mom is notoriously critical of medical shows and movies. And after working in hospitals for over 40 years and as an operating room nurse for over 20 years, who could blame her -- she can't overlook ...

Anthony Edwards delivered a powerful performance as Dr. Mark Greene in NBC's "ER." Dr. Greene was the leader of the pack at the show's fictionalized County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Emergency room doctors see the worst-case scenarios, the weird fluke accidents, the mysterious ailments ...