Specialist Shortage Shakes Emergency Rooms; More Hospitals Forced to Pay for Specialist Care (Special REPORT: Emergency Medicine) Specialist Shortage Shakes Emergency Rooms; More Hospitals Forced to Pay for Specialist Care (Special REPORT: Emergency Medicine)

Specialist Shortage Shakes Emergency Rooms; More Hospitals Forced to Pay for Specialist Care (Special REPORT: Emergency Medicine‪)‬

Physician Executive 2005, May-June, 31, 3

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Dr. Alex Valadka has taken emergency room call in the nation's fourth largest city, Houston, for 12 years. But only since last July did the 43 year-old neurosurgeon get paid for it. One of two institutions where he practices. The Methodist Hospital, doles out $500 for each day he agrees to come in to treat emergency patients for cervical spine fractures, cerebral hemorrhages and more.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2005
May 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
14
Pages
PUBLISHER
American College of Physician Executives
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
279.2
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