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Pete McMartin: 'It's only going to get worse.' My night in an ER waiting room 'I waited. One hour. Two hours. The time, unmoored from any urgency, drifted by.'

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Pete McMartin: 'It's only going to get worse.' My night in an ER waiting room

'I waited. One hour. Two hours. The time, unmoored from any urgency, drifted by.'

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Of that moment, I remember my son rushing toward me — his arms outstretched, his eyes open in alarm — and his shout of: “Dad, look out!”

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