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Aug 19, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Healthcare rant of the week: My husband has recently spent 7 days (2 admissions) in a kind of new invention of US healthcare hell: the “emergency department overflow unit.” Help me solve the
mystery of how these places of purgatory came to be 1/9
They are for patients who came in through the ED, who need admission, but for whom there is no open inpatient bed. They are kind of part of the ED, many floors away. And kind of part of the admitting ward, also distant. But offer the care of neither. 2/9
