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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

These stakeholders are similarly shielded in court when adverse patient outcomes, such as negligent deaths, occur under their management or when the bought-out companies are challenged for anticompetitive business practices overseen by the PE firm. Accessed August 25, 2024. Radiology Business. Accessed August 25, 2024.

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Perspectives – Aortic Laceration in a Rural Mississippi ED: A resident’s response

EMDocs

As usual, I was the only physician staffing this rural critical access hospital with limited resources which sits 61 miles away from our state’s only Level 1 trauma center. The radiology tech has his hand on a weak femoral pulse. In the Spring of my senior year, I was moonlighting at one of the University’s satellite locations.