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Patients. a lot of the times there's three or four patients. i come to work knowing i will not have a break. that has been the norm for the past several years. and you go to the e. r., you hardly -- when you see earners, please don't get mad at them. you know what? they have 19 to 20 other patients. we have been calling management. this is -- the size to change. our pleas are falling on deaf -- deaf ears. we now refused to be complicit in this. this is a very powerful statement. you see nurses standing up there in the cold. we're sacrificing that having wages. but those are little fat sacrific...

Not an nfl football fan. from my experience, i have taken care of the arkansas a razorback football team members in the past, and the most common type of injuries i saw when they came into the e.r. were shoulder dislocations, fractures, concussions. what happened to damar hamlin is a very rare occurrence, and we believe it is what is called comm blunt force injuries to the chest that could potentially put your heart in cardiac arrest, or put you in an arrhythmia, we are heart's quivering, not beating properly, so you can't pump blood to your brain or the rest of your body and you pass out. tha...

Threatening the united states from external. as long as that threat exists, it's not just covid. it's any health threat, it should stay in place. i'm not a doctor, but you look at the conditions the people are travelling through, packed together in the conditions at the border and occupancy of medical hospitals and e.r.'s along the southwest border, clearly needs to be in place for now. alicia: which leads me to the next question. we've seen the pictures of families migrants coming over and living on the streets in border cities and towns and now there's a very special health concerns with fol...

Director of the children's e.r. where they saw a 60% rise since 2020. at one point, you were so busy you brought hospital beds to the interim? >> we got hospital beds to any flat space we could find. >> reporter: it's been all hands on deck. because of the surge in rsv, you don't work with kids but you're being trained. >> exactly. >> reporter: a lesson when omicron numbers were surging. how do you guys cope? >> i think that we lean on each other, because we went through something that was so difficult, i'm sure there's some level of trauma bonding per se. >> reporter: when you're sprinting du...

Season's influx of flu and rsv. >> in the last few months when you come to work it's frantic. >> reporter: he is the medical director for the children's e.r. where they saw a 60% rise in young patients since 2020. you guys were so busy, you brought hospital beds to the ate rerum? >> we put them on any flat space. >> reporter: all hands on deck. because of the surge in rsv, you don't work with kids that you are getting trained to work with kids? >> exactly. >> reporter: a lesson in teamwork learned this time last year when omicron numbers were surging. how to you guys cope? >> i think that we l...