24 hours in the ER shows challenges of health system

To explore the healthcare reform issue, USA Today chronicled 24 hours in the emergency room at the UVA Medical Center, a teaching hospital and trauma center that serves patients in central Virginia. From dawn to dawn on Aug. 24-25, reporters talked with patients and their families, doctors and nurses, helicopter pilots, and ER housekeepers about their experiences with healthcare and their views on changing the system.