Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20140117:09:46:00
Department is the front door to the hospital, when the hospital is backed up, we're the place where you feel it. >> reporter: we know too many come to the e.r. because they're uninsured, but making matters worse, hospitals and e.r.s are closing. the ones open can be clogged with people overdosing on painkillers as well as those coming for the wrong reason. like refilling prescriptions. but the same emergency care doctors who released this report card, when people are experiencing an emergency to still head to the e.r. what they want is america to fix what one doctor told us is a system that's ...