NEW TREND: Segregated Hospital Emergency Rooms. “The NYT is acting like this is sort of posh. But one look at the headline — ‘For the Elderly, Emergency Rooms of Their Own’ — and my ‘Death Panels!’ red flag went up. Let’s make them very comfortable, let’s palliate, but let’s not save them. The heroic treatments are in that other emergency room, the one for the people who are still useful.”