Patient-free hospitals

“Apart from the obvious financial gains and lower insurance premiums there are a host of other advantages: patients treated in a language they do not understand tend to be much less demanding, and the legal structure in the countries we are looking at will ensure far fewer legal claims for medical n...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2004-03, Vol.363 (9411), p.830-830
Main Author: Borgstein, Johannes
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Hospital Administrators
Hospitalization - trends
Hospitals
Hospitals - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Medical malpractice
Medical personnel
Negligence
Patients
Patients - statistics & numerical data
Physicians
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Summary:“Apart from the obvious financial gains and lower insurance premiums there are a host of other advantages: patients treated in a language they do not understand tend to be much less demanding, and the legal structure in the countries we are looking at will ensure far fewer legal claims for medical negligence. “By systematically underpaying them we managed to gradually achieve a situation where so many hospital beds and wards had to close, that it was not possible to keep the medical staff busy the whole day. There was a slight setback when doctors started to work part time, but eventually we were able to show, with an updated electronic version of Frederick Taylor's early 20th-century time-management studies, that they spent half their time doing nothing.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15707-3