A shortage of medical staff is a critical problem hospitals face and studies have found that understaffed hospitals make many mistakes and provide less quality care.

In a landmark decision, Judge Johnson ordered Alabama to overhaul its crowded, understaffed mental hospitals, and detailed the rights of patients to decent care.

But those who protested say they will find other ways to bring attention to their plight in understaffed municipal hospitals overflowing with acutely ill patients.

She would have sworn the entire city of Anara-Zel had assembled outside the building in which she was setting up her woefully understaffed and undersupplied mobile hospital.

The nurses came to Libya in February 1998 to work at Libya's understaffed hospitals.

The understaffed and undersupplied hospitals were hardly refuges; even some of those have been shelled.

Others were taken to the city's understaffed general hospital.

Ms. Gibson's actual employer, Travcorps of Malden, Mass., says it has 1,300 travelers, nearly all nurses, working three- to six-month stints at understaffed hospitals.

One woman with severe respiratory problems, living in Paris's 13th Arrondissement, was sent home by an overcrowded and understaffed hospital, and died in her apartment.

Dr. Cohen's chillingly focuses on understaffed and overburdened hospitals and clinics, often filled with moonlighting inexperienced doctors and nurses.