NEW YORK — Burrows’ internal medicine hospital has 1,000 “emergency room” patients for non-urgence, non life-threatening and nonemerient reasons.The patients are being treated for chest pain and other ailments.The hospital says they receive the care because of the “urgent nature of the patient and the potential for non life threatening complications.”The hospital, a private hospital …
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How the U.S. is treating a patient who is the most dangerous of its vets
A senior VA hospital in Washington, D.C., has admitted a patient with terminal cancer who was not being treated at a traditional hospital.Dr. Christopher Burrows, the hospital’s chief of internal medicine and vice president of patient safety, told the local ABC affiliate that he was told by his chief of surgery that he should be …
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