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Elliott Fisher , a professor of medicine at Dartmouth University's influential health costs group, says that the two most expensive decisions a doctor makes are to send a patient to the hospital and to schedule a new appointment.
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The need to send sufferers to hospital has stretched Indonesia's medical system, which has already been smitten by the general economic collapse, pushing up the cost of imported medicines.
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Captain Manzura Ahmed(ph) from the Pakistani brigade says it would take too long to send this woman through the floodwaters to the one remaining hospital across town.
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Other private insurers, including Bupa, send patients to the Heart Hospital, which replaced the National Heart Hospital - the scene of the UK's first heart transplant.
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In addition, there have been abuses by nursing homes that send patients to the hospital so they can restart the three-day clock and get another round of Medicare payments.
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They send those patients to the hospital for Neulasta.
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He sees the giant sea turtle simply as a massive piece of meat to be charcoal-grilled and eaten, or sold and the cash spent to send his little daughter to school or hospital.
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Also Wednesday, a public prosecutor decided to send Hosni Mubarak -- who has spent the last few months detained in a military hospital -- back to prison, prosecutor spokesman Mahmoud Hefnawi told the state-run al-Ahram newspaper.
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Mr. Gibson, a software executive, knew about LifeImage's services through his work, and he reached a contact there who helped him send the MRI within minutes to Boston Children's Hospital, a LifeImage customer.
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Her deterioration led the government, on doctors' advice, to send her that evening to Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore, one of Asia's top hospitals.
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The court heard Kovvali was called to examine Mr Fellows but did not properly assess him or send him to hospital.
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