Emergency rooms are doing what they can to improve wait times, but most factors are out of their control.

“I think it?s because of the unavailability of private care services,” said Gregory Schaffer, president of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. “Physicians are just not as available as they used to be, so people end up using the emergency department.”

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