Emergency medicine doctors primarily work in the emergency departments, or emergency “rooms.” Urgent care facility staff also include emergency medicine doctors. Emergency medicine doctors stabilize ...

At least 24 American service members, civilian Defense Department employees or military dependents have been turned away for emergency medical care from Japanese hospitals in the past two years, and ...

Barely one year after the eruption of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched an exciting initiative for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. The ...

Rural emergency medical service workers are sounding the alarm about a system in a financial and worker crisis that can lead — and in some cases has already led — to increased response times for ...

It is difficult to imagine society without the assurance that skilled, professional paramedics will respond to a medical emergency. But before the 1970s, clumsy, haphazard care, often at the hands of ...

A recent study published in the journal Prehospital Emergency Care assesses current approaches to measure the performance of emergency medical services (EMS) throughout the United States and ...

A recent study out of Oregon suggests emergency medical responders — EMTs and paramedics — may be treating minority patients differently from the way they treat white patients. Specifically, the ...