Photos: A night in TMC Emergency Room
The calm, controlled chaos of a typical night in the emergency room at Tucson Medical Center.
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A man heads into the admitting area of the Tucson Medical Center's emergency department, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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Rural Metro Fire Department personnel Steve Knight, left, and Jim Ellis prepare to get a patient they just brought in off a gurney and into a wheel chair in the emergency department at Tucson Medical Center, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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Patient care technician Autumn Gardner wraps a chilly patient back up in her blankets after taking her vital signs in the waiting room at Tucson Medical Center's emergency department, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Emergency staff routinely check on patients forced to wait out in the waiting room for long periods before being teated. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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Patients in various levels of distress bide their time in the emergency department's waiting room at Tucson Medical Center, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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Registered nurse Adam Case runs a test on patient during triage during a shift in the emergency department at Tucson Medical Center, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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The various wrist bands distributed to patients to help staff quickly identify factors in determining treatments at the emergency department at Tucson Medical Center, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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Corey Greenhouse sits with his girlfriend Isabel Moutran as he gets a gash on the back of his hand stitched up in the emergency department at Tucson Medical Center, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Greenhouse earned four stitches after he cut himself on a couch trying to get a dog out from under it. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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Rapid response nurse Shannon Bachman talks to a patient with a possible stroke waiting to get a CT scan shortly after she arrived at Tucson Medical Center's emergency department, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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As she prepares to go off shift, charge nurse Heather Williams introduces her replacement, Troy Siler, to patients and assures them staff will check on them routinely during their stay in the emergency department's waiting room at Tucson Medical Center, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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A patient in a wheelchair awaits his turn in triage in the emergency department at Tucson Medical Center, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2015, Tucson, Ariz. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star