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Article: UCSF study challenges theory on overcrowding
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 12, 2008
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Contrary to popular perception, the uninsured aren't to blame for
emergency room overcrowding, according to a new study from the
University of California, San Francisco.
"There's an extremely wide misunderstanding that it's the
uninsured" flocking to emergency departments, said Dr. Linda
Lawrence, a Fairfax physician and president of the American College
of Emergency Physicians.
"But (this study) reflects what the American College of Emergency
Physicians has known for a long time," Lawrence continued. "It's not
the uninsured who are clogging our ERs, and it's also not patients
who are there for nonurgent care."
Erroneously blaming the uninsured as the source of ER
overcrowding means ...
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