Emergency Room
Emergency Room Doctors Say Australians Deserve Nationwide Lockouts
Australia's medical professionals are convinced we're a bunch of idiots who can't be trusted with alcohol, and are campaigning for nationwide lockout laws.
People Who Combine Coke and Alcohol Are More Likely to Kill Themselves
But you can't necessarily blame the drugs.
British Hospitals Are Being Flooded with People Who Ate Too Many Easter Eggs
In a Facebook status shared on Easter Sunday, the South Tees Hospitals trust said that it had seen an influx of people at its accident and emergency departments with “stomach aches caused by overindulgence.”
Half of Suicidal ER Patients Aren't Asked About Access to Guns
A new survey finds a whole lot of missed chances in American emergency departments.
You Can't Put That in There! A Look at Sex-Injury Data
Happy Valentine's Day! We went through nearly 450 sex injuries in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System to find the most common reasons for a sex-related visit to the emergency room.
This Guy's Headache Turned Out to be a Deadly Worm Lodged in His Brain
If the doctors had waited another 30 minutes to perform emergency surgery, he probably would've died.
The Daily Reality of Britain's Mental Health Crisis, According to a Psychiatric Doctor
A psychiatrist at London's Bethlem Royal Hospital tells us how exactly the UK's mental health services have been damaged by cuts.
Gunshot Wounds in the ER (Extra Scene from 'San Pedro Sula Nights')
In this extra scene, VICE News spent the night in an overcrowded emergency room of the Mario Catarino Rivas hospital in San Pedro Sula, where cases of bullet wounds are all too common.