DIVERTICULAR DISEASES (CLINICS IN GASTROENTEROLOGY Vol. 4, No. 1)
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1. The seven medical units on the E.B.S. rota have already all their patients admitted as "medical emergencies". These units are in the major hospital complexes with a heavy teaching programme and include three professorial units. Their work is dominated by the burden of accepting and disposing of "medical emergencies". 2. The back up hospitals which have approximately a quarter of the available beds have only a third or a quarter of their patients admitted as medical emergencies. It must be presumed that the majority of their patients are selected either by arrangement, by consultation or after a domiciliary visit. They would appear to practice more traditional medicine.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Ulster Medical Journal
دوره 44 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1975