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Emergency Room

  • Emergency rooms are busy places especially during the summer. More people are outside playing sports or enjoying the outdoors which can lead to sometimes getting injured. Dr. Christopher Hunter, assistant program director of the Orlando Health emergency medicine residency and the associate medical director of Orange County EMS, joins us to talk about why ER's tend to get busy during the summer and why Orlando has unique patients.
  • The emergency room at Dr. Phillips Hospital is equipped with a new technology that can disinfect ambulances in minutes. It stops the spread of contagious diseases.
  • For consumers to get health insurance that starts on January 1st, they would have to buy the policy by this Monday.Some hospitals are ramping up plans to…