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Why Emergency Medicine Feels Like Treating Symptoms of Society

Every homeless patient who comes in reminds me that we are just putting bandaids on systemic problems we cannot fix.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You can treat people, but you can't fix what's really making them sick.

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“Where Are You with Healthcare — Emergency Medicine & EMS?”

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