From South Coast Today (guest opinion piece):
Common assumptions about emergency room use and overuse run rampant, from public discourse to peer-reviewed medical literature. These assumptions often contain the same sentiment — that the poor, the unemployed, and the uninsured are clogging up emergency rooms with their minor health problems because they won’t go to a regular doctor.
Recently, health researchers have examined some of these beliefs and found that they don’t hold up.
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