![]() ![]() As chairman of the emergency medicine department at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, he and his staff handled a staggering 173,000 visits in 2013, from patients who showed up with everything including gunshot wounds and chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes and hypertension. Jara has become an expert at juggling patients while running what may be the single busiest emergency room in New York City. “We’re going to bring that other patient in here.”ĭr. Ducking into one room after another, he scanned medical charts until he found a patient who had been seen only moments before. “Everything’s full,” a doctor called out. ![]() The woman, in the midst of a seizure, moaned from a row of stretchers parked in the hallway of the emergency room at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx.
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