Society of Physician Assistants in Hallway Medicine (SPAHM)
Hard to believe this is health care in the United States. It reads like a goof piece from The Onion.
It may not sound like ideal health care, but hospital officials nationwide are being urged to consider hallway medicine as a way to ease emergency department crowding, and some are trying it.
Leading the way is Stony Brook University Medical Center at Stony Brook, N.Y., where a study found that no harm was caused by moving emergency room patients to upper-floor hallways when they were ready for admission.
What's next? Storing overflow patients in parking garages or hospital gift shops?
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