Interview with Dr. David Reuben on the emergence of hospital-dependent patients and its clinical and ethical implications. (09:31)Download One intractable cause of readmissions is hospital-dependent patients. Medicine has yet to acknowledge the predicament of having created a population of incurable, fragile, but not yet terminally ill patients without developing a health care system that can meet their needs.
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