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42. Your Doctor Has to Go Home. Now What?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Effects of the Emergency Department Doctor on Admissions to the Emergency Room

If you arrive near the emergency doctor's end of shift, you'll end up spending 67 % less time in the emergency department. You're more likely to be transferred upstairs and admitted. And as a result, much more money is going to be spent on you. If patients come towards the end of a doctor's shift, they get tests and procedures done more quickly, perhaps more of them done. They get admitted to the hospital. That would necessarily be a bad thing, right? So i presume you've looked at the outcomes for the patient, so you're shortening the time that the en spends in the emergency Department. All right, that's right. Ard, you embarrss

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