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'Waiting Room': Hundreds a Day Seek Hospital of 'Last Resort'

Eric Morgan, in his 20s and planning to get married, arrives at Highland Hospital's emergency room, shaken that he has been diagnosed with a testicular tumor that is likely cancer. Surgeons at a private hospital have turned him away for lack of insurance but tell him it's "urgent" he get care. Demia Bruce -- out of work for a year -- anxiously waits in the same ER with his 5-year-old daughter, her face swollen and burning with fever. Carl Connelly has overdosed on drugs and alcohol, and...Full Story
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