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Pete McMartin: I waited. One hour. Two hours. My night in an ER waiting room

But the professionalism of health-care workers deserves to be noted and thanked sometimes, which, it seems to me, is too often not the case

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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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Something heavy hit me hard on the crown of my head. I fell forward onto the pavement and swore loudly. It hurt like hell.

We were playing basketball on a friend’s driveway. The large steel tube that held up the backboard had come loose from its cement footing, and the tube and the backboard came down and hit me. I said I was OK, that I just wanted to go home, but there was blood on my scalp, and when my son led........

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