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The most remote emergency room: Life and death in rural America


“Let’s get all hands on deck.”He watched on the monitor as a few more nurses and a physician assistant came into the hospital room to prepare for an emergency intubation. Just an inch?”ADHe watched the nurse maneuver the breathing tube as he drummed his fingers against his knee. But now on the screen in rural Montana, Skow counted a total of five people in the room. She stood in an empty hospital room in Onawa, a farming town of 3,000 on the Missouri River, and looked up at a screen on the wall. She watched DeJong take notes on the screen.


Source: Washington Post November 17, 2019 00:02 UTC



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