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Bonus - Tradeoffs Special Episode: Medical Respite—Too Healthy to be Hospitalized But Too Sick to be Unhoused

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The Story of a Homeless Man in Washington, DC

Former maintenance engineer Henry had been homeless in washington, d c for 11 years. He waited eight hours to be seen by a medical team who told him there was nothing they could do. A hospital social worker ferred him to a place called christ house where doctors and nurses worked on sight 24 hours a day. People came with broken bones, nasty cuts, frost bite, conditions you could usually heal from at home on the street.

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