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Study: Hospital-physician relations strained
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By Mike Wei | Posted 11:20am | December 10, 2006
Dear Ann
This article suggests that physicians refusal to take ER call as something less than desirable.
This is the extension of the uninsured issue.
Most ER patients that are unassigned has no insurance.
So the reality is that taking ER call means giving up the nite with your family and taking call for patients, most of which will not pay you and inherited the liability risk that goes along with this.
Putting the same sentence in this different light hopefully would balance off the negative tone in the original articles.





