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Here's the article (it's short, c'mon read it):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189075,00.html
So fewer docs are giving out free care and it will drive more patients into the ER. No surprise there. It's going to get worse? No surprise there either.
This quote really bugs me though: "The highest rate of free care, 78.8 percent, comes from surgeons, perhaps because many of these doctors treat uninsured patients in emergency rooms."
It just goes to show how little people understand about EM and EPs. I can sometimes get a surgeon to take an acute appy or other truly emergent pt to the OR but other than that they never set foot down here. They are sure not hanging around in the ED giving out free care and hugs and foot massages to the indigent like the article makes it sound.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189075,00.html
So fewer docs are giving out free care and it will drive more patients into the ER. No surprise there. It's going to get worse? No surprise there either.
This quote really bugs me though: "The highest rate of free care, 78.8 percent, comes from surgeons, perhaps because many of these doctors treat uninsured patients in emergency rooms."
It just goes to show how little people understand about EM and EPs. I can sometimes get a surgeon to take an acute appy or other truly emergent pt to the OR but other than that they never set foot down here. They are sure not hanging around in the ED giving out free care and hugs and foot massages to the indigent like the article makes it sound.