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Article: Surgeons in Broward balk at transfer load: Palm Beach County sends patients south.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2006
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Byline: Patty Pensa
Nov. 13--As Palm Beach County takes measured steps toward bringing on-call surgeons back into hospital emergency departments, frustration is growing south of the county line, where Broward County specialists are caring for more high-risk transfers. "We feel like we're asked to fix a problem that's occurring in Palm Beach," said Dr. Amos Stoll, a neurosurgeon at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. "We didn't get on staff at Broward General to take cases from Palm Beach. They really need to get their own neurosurgeons up there."
So far this year, Broward General has had 34 adult patients transferred from northern ...