Emergency Room Archives

February 22, 2019

‘Letters From the Pit’ Tells Tales From an Austin ER With Humor and Empathy

In his new memoir, the former chief of emergency medicine at Brackenridge Hospital recounts stories that are by turns tragic, triumphant, and NSFW.

March 1, 1992

The politics of trauma.

March 1, 1992

When a few minutes matter, an EMS helicopter can make the difference between life and death.

April 1, 1977

Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency room is a night of the living dead.

January 31, 1974

Fires, murders, robberies, assaults, highway accidents: they happen every day in the city, and what happens every day is big news on San Antonio TV.