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"Including visits for conditions that may be most readily treatable in primary care settings." That's just engrained practice. People used to go to the ER inst
by HarryHirsch 9y ago
"Including visits for conditions that may be most readily treatable in primary care settings."
That's just engrained practice. People used to go to the ER instead of a regular physician, now they continue what they always did. You ask yourself why the hospital doesn't set up a regular practice on the premises and has triage send patients there.
- dv_dt 9y agoIs the ER a cost center or a profit center? Often times, I wonder if even the hospitals themselves know... More seriously, I suspect routing routine patients to lower-cost settings would put ERs more in the red under our current system.
- vonmoltke 9y ago> You ask yourself why the hospital doesn't set up a regular practice on the premises and has triage send patients there. In Texas, they are legally prohibited from doing so. They would have to send you to a physically-separate location, even if said location was still in the hospital's parent network.