October 27, 2000
Teaching Hospitals Threatened by Cutbacks in Specialized Services, Report Says
The competitive health-care market is forcing teaching hospitals to cut back on specialized services, which threatens their ability to train doctors and treat the nation's neediest citizens, a report released this month concludes.
Patients who seek treatment at an academic medical center tend to be sicker, poorer, and have more medical complications than the average hospital patient. The average patient in a teaching hospital ends up with a bill of $10,655,
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