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Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 3/2020

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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 | Ausgabe 3/2020

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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. …
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Metadaten
Titel
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
Publikationsdatum
09.01.2020
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Ausgabe 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Elektronische ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05630-2

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