Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...case isn't as simple as it seems. What killed Patricia Jones was more than an error in medical judgement; it was a system of care that forced her into an overburdened and underfunded emergency room, stocked with inadequate supplies and staffed by professionals pushed to the limit hour after hour, day after day. Patricia Jones was killed by her lack of access to private health care--the health care that most Harvard students take for granted...
EACH Saturday this summer, I worked the day shift in the Emergency Care Center at D.C. General. I assisted the medical staff during trauma emergencies, wheeled patients to x-rays and stocked supplies in the walk-in clinic. After two months in the emergency room, what surprises me most about the case of Patricia Jones is that it doesn't happen more often...
...General is to emergency care what a soup kitchen is to dining--the emphasis, by necessity, is on treating as many patients as quickly and decently as possible. According to city records, more than 220 people received care at the D.C. General emergency room every day last year--more than three times the number at the second-busiest hospital...
...General emergency room also provides care to inmates from the D.C. Correctional Facility and from jails as far away as Lorton, Virginia...
...patients who can't afford private care go to D.C. General. The patients other hospitals are loathe to take--for example, intravenous drug users with AIDS--go to D.C. General. On a routine basis, these hospitals ship indigent patients, often, some of their sickest, to D.C. General...