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- From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Questions for MDs
- Message-ID: <15832@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 22:39:09 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.200017.6677@island.COM> <15784@pitt.UUCP> <54911@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <54911@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- >If the shoe store acted that way, they would lose customers. If there
- >was ER competition, an ER which treated patients that way should lose
- >its business as well.
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- The ER isn't a money maker at most hospitals but a money loser.
- Too many of the patients who use the ER are indigent and often
- the hospital has to swallow the costs of their treatment. In
- addition, by maintaining an ER, hospitals provide a door for
- indigents to enter their hospital, incurring even more unrecoverable
- costs.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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