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50. What Happens When a Hospital Closes?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Rural Emergency Hospital Program

Rural hospitals play an incredibly important role in the communities where they operate. But medicine isn't the same as it was 30 years ago, and the way we care for patients in rural settings maybe needs to evolve. One way to reconcile these trade offs would be to implement a rural health system that's strong an primary care and also strong in its ability to treat and treage the most time sensitive medical conditions.

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