Word: waiting
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...next time you go to the emergency room, expect to wait longer...
...study by researchers at Harvard Medical School found that from 1997 to 2004, waits increased an average of 36 percent. And for the most severe cases, the wait increased by 40 percent...
Assaad J. Sayah, an emergency room doctor at Cambridge Health Alliance and instructor at the Medical School, said the wait for the most severe cases increased so much because those patients often had to wait for a bed to open...
Sayah, chief of emergency medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, said the three emergency departments he oversees have been working to reduce wait time. In the past year and a half, waits have decreased by 18 percent, even as the number of patients has increased by 5 percent, he said. He said patient satisfaction ratings have also increased...
...Peyo died in 1992, but his studio continues to live on, producing comic books, and has started to tackle more modern themes. The tribe, which originally numbered 100, had to wait nine years before it met its first female, the Smurfette - although more girls have been promised in future albums. And in the wake of the revelation by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling that Dumbledore was gay, Nine Culliford has hinted at a similar outing amongst the Smurfs. "Well, I did tell my husband that Vanity Smurf was like that, and he said, 'I never thought about...