Emergency rooms: The reluctant safety net

History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In

Volumn 9780813539874, Issue , 2006, Pages 250-272

  Hoffman, Beatrix ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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