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.

Amid a nationwide shortage of doctors, ERs in small towns are increasingly getting by without on-site physicians.

Leon Adelman is an emergency medicine physician in Gillette, Wyoming, which, at around 33,800 residents, is the largest city in the state's northeast. Working in such a rural area has given him ...

From the waking nightmares of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood to families in Rust Belt towns around Pittsburgh torn apart by addiction and death, opioid abuse has wreaked havoc on multiple gene ...

There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the ...

The former chairman of emergency medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center has been sentenced to one to three years in prison for stealing nearly $1.5 million in institutional funds for personal use ...

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Following yet another motorcycle fatality early Sunday morning, the sixth road death in just two weeks, Dr Jonathan Joslin ...

The Central Valley is no stranger to scorching summer temperatures. But local doctors are reminding people not to get too comfortable because heat-related ...

An analysis of ownership data showed that nearly a quarter of all emergency department visits in the U.S. occurred at ...