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The ED physician has some liability to care for these tremendously ill patients, "and you are doing so in a unit that is not really designed for ICU patients," says Robert Shesser, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC.

ED boarding adds to risk