The author states that "When need is the allocative principle at work, the pressure to ration non-urgent care, particularly surgical interventions, becomes more intense." What does she trace this back to?
A) the lack of physicians willing to practice in less densely populated or more remote areas
B) the tendency of medical students to opt for specialties over primary care
C) the change in federal government funding from reimbursement to global budgets
D) the shift from not-for-profit to for-profit hospitals
C
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You determine a patient's blood glucose level to be 289 mg/dL. You document this result on the prehospital care report as:
A) normal. B) hyperglycemic. C) depressed. D) hypoglycemic.
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