The Pitfalls of Free Standing Emergency Rooms
By Ken Cohen, MD, FACP Chief Medical Officer We have all become familiar with the fact that our healthcare system costs several times more than those of other advanced nations and yet provides us with inferior health outcomes. A great sadness that contributes to this truth is the profit motive in healthcare. Nowhere in medicine is the example clearer than in the proliferation of free standing emergency rooms. These are typically built in affluent neighborhoods, and often in the “backyard”... View Article
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