Since 1992 Josyann Abisaab has been working in the Emergency Department at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where she is an Assistant Attending Physician. Emergency room medicine is a specialized field in which a doctor will come across a wide range of injuries and illnesses, in many cases those can be life threatening, requiring the instant attention of a doctor.
It is common for emergency rooms in the United States to be quite busy places. Some of the types of emergencies which are handled in emergency rooms include, heart attacks; trauma, such as injuries from car accidents or other types of accidents; mental illness, which sometimes means police bringing people to the emergency room against their will if they seem to be a danger to themselves or others; asthma attacks or COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) can also bring people into the emergency room due to difficulty to breath; plus a large assortment of other illnesses and situations.
