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Tim Dower: Do we need more A&Es?
Really interested in this Medical Journal piece about emergency departments.
The impression we often get is they're horribly overcrowded, patients lying in corridors for hours in agony, constant panic stations.
Friday and Saturday nights are bedlam, we're told: drunks staggering around the place, people unleashing their stress and anger at the staff.
And in the winter, people with coughs and colds packing out the waiting area.
Hospitals are begging us to go to our GPs, even giving out vouchers to take the pressure off, because a lot of people can't afford to pay for a doctor's visit.
What the…
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