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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 04 > Crowded ERs make room by using the hallways

Crowded ERs make room by using the hallways

By Carla K. Johnson / The Bulletin
December 4, 2008

CHICAGO — There’s no phone and no television. Only a screen offers privacy. But heart patient Edward Gray understands why the hospital put him in a cardiac unit hallway.

“They sent me up here to make room for other emergency patients,” Gray, 78, said last....

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