Erschienen in:
09.01.2020 | Viewpoint
Are you Willing to Wait? Tradeoffs and Compromises Required to Achieve Universal Health Insurance
verfasst von:
Peter Cram, MD MBA, Nolan Cram, Christian Veillette, MD MSc
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 3/2020
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Excerpt
In August 2018, I found myself waiting in a crowded downtown Toronto emergency department (ED). An hour earlier, my 16-year-old son Nolan had called from the summer camp where he worked to say that his shoulder had “popped-out” while swimming. My wife and I breathed a sigh of relief—minor health scare—and I hurried to the Toronto Western Hospital (TWH) ED. I quickly found Nolan, in moderate discomfort, in the cramped subacute waiting area and asked him if he was okay that he waited for a little while. He said he was. …