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Emergency rooms hit with flu 'hysteria'

May. 2, 2009
After a week of headlines about the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, many emergency rooms are crammed with people who don't need to be there. "We are spending significant time in the emergency department, calming people down," says a doctor whose company oversees 18 emergency rooms in Southern...
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