Just say no – a proposal in the UK for ERs to turn away non-emergent cases

July 4, 2006

I wonder if this would fly here:

“The ‘open door’ arrangement is not working. New gate-keeping mechanisms are needed. Strategies about who needs to be seen and those who can have medical assessment deferred must be developed order to protect the safety and health of existing in-patients,” Dr Murphy writes in an editorial in the latest edition the journal.

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