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Anthropology and Medicine from the Bottom Up | Eric Reinhart, MD

The Doctor's Art

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The Role of Emergency Departments in Hospitals

In many hospitals, some of your general medicine units are not revenue generators. At the University of Chicago, what was not a revenue generator was the unit that didn't exist. And then you also see this very startling many places with the emergency departments. This is how you control who gets into your hospital because since the 1980s, there's been legislation that requires you to treat anybody who presents to the emergency department and stabilize them.

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