http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/12/solving-er-overcrowding-in-arizona.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/12/solving-er-overcrowding-in-arizona.html#comment-69746 Anonymous Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:56:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/12/solving-er-overcrowding-in-arizona.html#comment-69746 This is political. The fact is the University of Arizona (in Tucson)has opened a branch campus in Phoenix in conjunction with ASU. there are many good hospitals in which the students can rotate and have residents (Good Samaritan, St Joseph's, Maricopa County, not to mention Mayo Scottsdale). There is also a DO school in Phoenix. The fact is some of the Phoenix powerbrokers think that ASU should have it's own med school and not a UA branch campus. Either way, a new med school will have little help to today's ER patient's. The article is right about Napalitono vetoing the medical malpractice bill This is political. The fact is the University of Arizona (in Tucson)has opened a branch campus in Phoenix in conjunction with ASU. there are many good hospitals in which the students can rotate and have residents (Good Samaritan, St Joseph’s, Maricopa County, not to mention Mayo Scottsdale). There is also a DO school in Phoenix. The fact is some of the Phoenix powerbrokers think that ASU should have it’s own med school and not a UA branch campus. Either way, a new med school will have little help to today’s ER patient’s. The article is right about Napalitono vetoing the medical malpractice bill

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/12/solving-er-overcrowding-in-arizona.html#comment-69742 Anonymous Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/12/solving-er-overcrowding-in-arizona.html#comment-69742 If patients do not have access to primary care doctors and instead seek their acute care through overburdened emergency rooms, why does it seem necessary to conclude that opening a medical school is the answer? Is the access problem a result of overcrowded doctors officed and lack of appointments, or inadequate insurance and inability or unwillingness to pay for non-emergency-room based care (which isn't free either, very much the opposite, but is frequently not paid for by ER users)? Building a teaching hospital makes residents available to see patients, but doesn't necessarily get patients into private doctors's offices and out of the ER. If patients do not have access to primary care doctors and instead seek their acute care through overburdened emergency rooms, why does it seem necessary to conclude that opening a medical school is the answer? Is the access problem a result of overcrowded doctors officed and lack of appointments, or inadequate insurance and inability or unwillingness to pay for non-emergency-room based care (which isn’t free either, very much the opposite, but is frequently not paid for by ER users)? Building a teaching hospital makes residents available to see patients, but doesn’t necessarily get patients into private doctors’s offices and out of the ER.

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