Hospital wants us to admit dead patients

So our notortiously understaffed and underresourced inner city ED just hired a new chairman who previously worked at the well resoured Ivy league ED across town. Since he’s stared over the last few months his main focus has been to increase revenues by any means possible by further increasing billing. This has led to some ridiculous highly questionable department policies centered around critical care. Now his newest policy is to have us admit cardiac arrest patients even if they’ve been... Read more
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