Local Er Crunch in Spotlight ; Mother's Story of Delays a Sign of National Woes

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An Oakland mother's frustration with her daughter's treatment at Hackensack University Medical Center has become a national example of what's wrong with America's emergency rooms.

"My story is everyone's story, yet it shouldn't be anyone's story," Elizabeth Kobb said in a House hearing room in Washington on Wednesday. She, along with the American College of Emergency Physicians, was pressing for a federal law to improve emergency care.

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Local Er Crunch in Spotlight ; Mother's Story of Delays a Sign of National Woes

Kobb described how her 24-year-old daughter, Jennifer, waited for hours to be seen by a doctor when she was suffering from persistent vomiting last winter. The doctor thought she needed to be admitte...

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