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PROVIDENCE - From the head of emergency medicine at Kent Hospital came this picture on Thursday "of what an overcrowded emergency department looks ...
PROVIDENCE - From the head of emergency medicine at Kent Hospital came this picture on Thursday "of what an overcrowded emergency department looks like." "Today it looks like an 82-year-old grandfather forced to wait in an emergency department for two days while having a heart attack because there is not a bed in the cardiology wing. "It looks like a 24-year-old woman having a miscarriage, sitting in a hallway....while staff desperately try to find a sick patient who can come out of her room so she and her husband can have a private place to grieve.