We've all been there: grabbing a hot pan without oven mitts, accidentally slicing your hand while cutting an avocado, or hurting yourself during home-reno-gone-wrong. Accidents are part of life, and ...

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Here’s a basic truth of human life: No one plans a visit to the emergency room, and no one really wants to be there. The ...

Sometimes it’s pretty obvious that it’s time to head to the emergency room, but others…you might not be so sure. You may start to second-guess yourself: Is it really that serious? Especially for women ...

If the burn is anywhere on the face, hands, feet or genital area, Dr. Behar says to go to the emergency room ASAP. If a burn ...

We asked emergency physicians what lessons they’d learned from their job. By Jancee Dunn It’s pretty hard to shock an emergency physician. “We see the worst of the worst, and the silliest of the ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Emergency room doctors see the worst-case scenarios, the weird fluke accidents, the mysterious ailments ...

There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room (ER) in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents. There never is.