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The reason for not seeing a doctor when you get to the ER is surprising
An emergency room doctor at Yale University said that private equity investment and the use of midlevel practitioners has risen in lockstep in the emergency room. A working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research analysed around 1.1 million visits to 44 ERs throughout the Veterans Health Administration. It found that ER patients treated…
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The obstacles to invention were overcome.
An economist from Columbia University in New York City has said the response of researchers and inventors to COVID-19 crisis is similar to the approach taken during the Second World War. He co-wrote a paper that explored the parallels between the two world-altering calamities. Sampat also co-wrote a paper for the US-based National Bureau of…