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This program explores the conditions under which a patient should seek emergency care-chest or upper abdominal pain, difficulty in breathing, dizziness, weakness or sudden change in vision, severe vomiting-and the care typically available in community hospital emergency rooms. For minor conditions, a trauma center may be the last place to come for treatment, putting the patient at the end of a long line of more seriously injured people; but if an injury or illness is deemed serious and requiring immediate care, the patient should not hesitate to go to the emergency room.
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