Waiting Room Medicine

Has It Really Come to This?

Arthur L. Kellermann

ResearchPosted on rand.org 2010Published in: Annals of Emergency Medicine, v. 56, no. 5, Editorial, Nov. 2010, p. 468-471

Emergency department physicians are devising an ever-expanding list of workarounds to deal with ED overcrowding, but the author argues that their success in doing so perhaps enables abuse of patients rather than their protection.

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  • Publisher: Elsevier Inc
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2010
  • Pages: 4
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
  • Document Number: EP-201001-52

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