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Really cool project and great writeup! I'm a physician and have been brainstorming a project with similar data acquisition concerns regarding services availabl
by n8henrie 4y ago
Really cool project and great writeup!
I'm a physician and have been brainstorming a project with similar data acquisition concerns regarding services available. One of the most difficult things is that it's frustratingly fluid. As another poster mentioned, in my large rural state (NM) we have only one level 1 trauma center. In the 5th large state in the nation, there may be specialty services that completely depend on whether a single physician is on holiday or has transferred to a neighboring hospital, etc.
Neurosurgical services are a good example -- a handful of neurosurgeons in ABQ may be taking call for multiple hospitals, but only on certain days of the week, and the same neurosurgeon may be able to care for a trauma case at one hospital but not another (depending on equipment, staff, and most of all policy).