I’m sure this is a common scenario across the country:
“Often, when I have to transfer patients with life-and-limb threatening injuries, it has taken hours to locate a physician willing to accept the transfer and obtain either helicopter or ambulance transfer,” Plantz said.
“This is a source of serious liability for the emergency physicians as we are always blamed.”






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