Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. series The Pitt has drawn praise for its unflinching portrayal of the ED, including a widely discussed episode in which a patient’s family member violently assaults a nurse. The Warner Bros.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. That put me in the emergency room. But you really should be looking at family history, personal history. [laughter] David 04:24 That’s what they all say. Eric, do you want me to go first? Eric 04:29 Yeah, go ahead, David. David 04:31 Yes. Eric 45:24 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. Did this primary palliative care intervention in the emergency room involving a.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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