#emergencyroom — Public Fediverse posts
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"Democrats demand Trump administration halt collection of patients’ ER records"
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"A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched to collect the personal and identifiable health data of Americans who visit emergency rooms."
#USPol #Oregon #Privacy #HealthCare #EmergencyRoom #Surveillance
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Another #EmergencyRoom #closed in #BritishColumbia due to lack of staffing.
#Lillooet #Hospital’s emergency room is closed for 24 hours starting Monday morning due to a lack of available staff. This is another closure following a list of closures in July.
#BCpoli #BCNDP #BCPublicHealth #HealthcareCrisis #FireBonnieHenry #PublicHealth #ERclosed
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Experts discuss how to limit impact of serious road crash injuries https://www.euractiv.com/section/road-transport/news/experts-discuss-how-to-limit-impact-of-serious-road-crash-injuries/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #emergencyroom #firstaid #ICU #JohanniterInternational #roadcrash
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CW: Long thread/13
Heard of the "surprise billing epidemic"? That's where you go to a hospital that's covered by your insurer, only to discover - after the fact - that the #EmergencyRoom is operated by a separate, PE-backed company that charges you thousands for junk fees. KKR and #Blackstone invented this scam, then funneled millions into fighting the #NoSurprisesAct, which more-or-less killed it:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/21/all-in-it-together/#doctor-patient-unity
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