But there are few drug-rehabilitation centres in the state, and even fewer that will accept poor patients.
For Brooklyn's hospitals, many of which are struggling financially with poor patients and heavy debt loads, it would allow them to cut costs by reducing the overlap between services.
One example is India (see article), where poor patients mostly have to pay for their own health care: its techniques and business models may yet be copied in the rich world.
Meanwhile, you have tired Doctoras and poor patients.
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Montefiore Medical Center has amassed a private network of hospitals and clinics and a patient management system that makes it easier to run a profitable operation in the Bronx, which like Brooklyn has a high percentage of poor patients.
It is official: India is siding with poor cancer patients over profits for multinational drug giants.
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When I was in Tulsa a few months ago, a fellow-surgeon explained how he had made up for lost revenue by shifting his operations for well-insured patients to a specialty hospital that he partially owned while keeping his poor and uninsured patients at a nonprofit hospital in town.
To make matters worse, poor and sick patients are more likely to suffer from mental illnesses.
It was also complicated by a poor understanding of patients who have multiple conditions, which affects 80% of those with advanced illnesses.
That's because the law also has provisions forcing steep federal cuts to supplemental Medicaid payments received by hospitals that serve large numbers of poor and uninsured patients.
As a young doctor on the hellish, Hogarthian wards of the Bellevue Hospital in lower Manhattan, he noticed that some among his poor, desperate patients contracted TB, while others stayed healthy.
Lawyers handling claims for patients said poor communication was the common factor in most negligence cases.
The Philippine government's Heart Center in Manila attracts as many affluent patients as poor ones because of its high standards of medical expertise.
However, health activists and aid groups counter that Indian generics are a lifesaver for patients in poor countries who cannot afford Western prices to treat diseases such as cancer, malaria and HIV.
More than one in 10 patients rated hospital food as poor, according to an official survey of more than 60, 000 NHS patients in England published last December.
Following the Care Quality Commission's recent report on what it called "alarmingly" poor care for elderly hospital patients, leading nurse Prof Ian Peate says in this week's Scrubbing Up that the profession should look again at how it trains people to look after older people.
"Sadly Age Cymru believe this case is not a one-off as too often we hear reports from older people and their families across Wales of patients in hospital receiving poor standards of care, " she said.
For example, Rebecca Onie was a college sophomore when she realized the connection between poverty and poor health: low-income patients lack basic resources such as food and housing, and the lack of such resources often leads to worse health outcomes.
Even in the poorer parts of the world, people will increasingly have to pay their own way. (In fact, a far higher proportion of health spending already comes directly out of patients' pockets in poor countries than in rich ones.) And the drug companies, their discoveries safely protected by patents, are the principal source of innovation in modern medicine.
In India Dr Mohan's Diabetes Centres, a business, charges middle-class patients to subsidise care for the poor.
The poor quality of life for heart-failure patients, leading up to death, can also be devastating, he says.
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This leads to vast wealth for the corporate medical complex but poor health outcomes and empty wallets for the patients.
After marrying, Binger mentored poor girls as a Big Sister, registered patients at a children's hospital and volunteered at Planned Parenthood.
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of The Patients Association, said patients regularly contacted their helpline about poor standards of food in hospital.
One reason for the limited response rate may be that some patients' T cells do a poor job of recognizing melanoma.
Many believe that quality of care has suffered, primarily as a result of poor access, with the complaints that elderly patients sometimes not receiving proper care that they are entitled to receive.
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It takes rich and poor, young and old, strapping and debilitated patients.
Myeloma accounts for about 2% of all cancer cases in the UK, and has poor survival rates, with only 23% of patients living for more than five years after diagnosis.
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The report said despite the clear consensus over what diabetes patients needed, performance had been "depressingly poor".
It would also extend to patients deemed too sick to travel or too poor to buy the drug.
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