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May 06, 2006
ER In Crisis
From a post on the decline in emergency room care in the U.S. and the negative impact of medical malpractice.
The soaring cost of medical malpractice insurance has forced many doctors to give up their practice and has shrunk the number of specialists, such as neurosurgeons, who are available to emergency departments. One doctor said he had 20 specialists on call five years ago. Today he has four. This is true in many hospitals throughout the nation.
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Posted on May 6, 2006 08:41 AM by Medica66.
Filed in Personal Injury Resources under medical malpractice.
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