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Jeffrey Romoff, president of and chief executive officer of University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC), speaks during an interview in New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 22, 2010. Photographer: Ramin Talaie/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Jeffrey Romoff

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The Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami Beach, Florida.

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The construction site of Mercy Hospital Joplin, in Joplin, Mo., on Feb. 4, 2013.

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A newborn boy is pictured at a hospital in the Chinese city of Jinhua on May 28, 2013, after being rescued from a sewer pipe in a residential building in Zhejiang province

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The new 100-bed provincial hospital under construction in Gardez, Afghanistan.

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In this image taken from video, South African President Jacob Zuma, left, sits with the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, more than three weeks after being released from hospital. Mandela was treated in hospital for a recurring lung infection. South African President Jacob Zuma visited the former leader on Monday, but Mandela does not appear to speak during the televised portion of the visit, as he sits in an armchair, his head propped up by a pillow and with his cheeks showing what appear to be marks from a recently removed oxygen mask, although Zuma said he found Nelson Mandela “in good shape and in good spirits”.

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Massachusetts General Hospital nurse Adam Barrett talks about the horrific early hours as bloody patients poured in after the explosions at the Boston Marathon.

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In this March 22, 2013 photo, Dr. Pier Giulianotti, chief of minimally invasive and robotic surgery at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in Chicago, sits at the control panel of the da Vinci robot system. Surgeons say the advantages of the system include allowing them to operate sitting down, using small robotic hands with no tremor. But critics say a big increase in robot operations nationwide is due to heavy marketing and hype, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is looking into problems and deaths that may be linked with robotic surgery. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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Louisville coach Rick Pitino (L) and Florida International University head coach Richard Pitino visit Kevin Ware in his hospital room at the Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis in Indiana, in this image tweeted by the University of Louisville on April 1, 2013.

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Henry Bromell, executive producer of the Showtime series "Homeland" is photographed on the set in Charlotte, N.C. Bromell's longtime agent and friend, Peter Benedek, said Bromell died Monday at a Los Angeles area hospital. He was 66.

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A Swiss woman, center, who was gang raped by a group of eight men while touring by bicycle with her husband, is escorted by policewomen for a medical examination at a hospital in Gwalior, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Thirteen men were detained and questioned in connection with the attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said. The men beat the couple and gang-raped the woman, he said. They also stole the couple's mobile phone, a laptop computer and 10,000 rupees ($185), Gurjar said. (AP Photo)

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Filin leaves the hospital on Feb. 4. He has introduced contemporary productions to the Bolshoi repertoire

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The body of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid is transported from a clinic in Tunis to the public hospital for an autopsy. Feb. 6, 2013.

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Doctor examining patient in hospital

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DJs Mel Greig (left) and Michael Christian impersonated the Queen and Prince Charles in a prank call to the London hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge last December. The hoax led to a London nurse’s suicide.

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In this Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 photo, Dr. Steve Sun looks over a heart monitor display in the emergency room at St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco. Sun said he had seen an increase in energy-drink related cases at the Catholic hospital where he works on the edge of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

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Luis Puentes, Director of Emergency Preparedness at Lehigh Valley Health Network's main hospital campus, applies a decal to a mobile tent set up to handle the recent influx of flu cases on January 11 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The health department has designated influenza as widespread throughout 41 states, with more than 11,000 laboratory-confirmed cases since flu season began in mid-December.

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Teenager in a hospital emergency room

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 06: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his pregnant wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge leave the King Edward VII hospital where The Duchess was being treated for acute morning sickness (Hyperemesis Gravidarum) on December 06, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Indigo/Getty Images)

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The Duchess Of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, leaving King Edward VII Hospital with Prince William on Dec. 06, 2012 in London after spending three nights at the hospital being treated for a type of severe morning sickness.

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge leave the King Edward VII hospital where she has been treated for hyperemesis gravidarum, extreme morning sickness at King Edward VII Hospital on December 6, 2012 in London, England.

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A USN Hospital Corspman assigned to the Female Engagement Team from 1st Battalion 7th Marines Regiment works out at Forward Operating Base Jackson on June 15, 2012.

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The new VA hospital in Las Vegas, shown under construction in 2010, opened in August.

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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil hold the hand of a patient who was injured during an Israeli strike, on their visit to a hospital in Gaza City, Nov. 16, 2012. Israel's military denied that it carried out attacks in the Gaza Strip during Kandil's visit.

In this aerial photograph, a supply vessel moves near an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico damaged by an explosion and fire, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, about 25 miles southeast of Grand Isle, La. Four people were transported to a hospital with critical burns and two were missing. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 28: Ambulances gather outside of NYU Langone Medical Center in preparation for evacuations on the eastside of Manhattan October 28, 2012 in New York City. Sandy, which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters to the mid-Atlantic region. (Photo by Michael Heiman/Getty Images)

Caption from LIFE. “In Paris hospital, where he awaited a plane for U.S., Lott is carried to ward by German army medical corps prisoners.”

Caption from LIFE. "In Paris hospital, where he awaited a plane for U.S., Lott is carried to ward by German army medical corps prisoners."

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Abortion rights activists protest outside a hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a judge intervened in the scheduled abortion of a woman rescued from a prostitution ring. Argentina's Supreme Court ruled Oct. 12, 2012, that the 32-years old woman must be allowed to have the abortion.

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Hospital workers evacuate patient Deborah Dadlani from NYU Langone Medical Center during Hurricane Sandy the evening of Oct. 29, 2012 in New York City.