Putting the squeeze on emergency medicine. The many pressures on today's ED

Whether it's indigent care, cost containment, transfer laws, financially wary HMOs, overcrowding, reimbursement, or emergency-department inefficiency, the factors "putting the squeeze" on emergency medicine seem to multiply with each new survey. These pressures, the authors feel, are not only weakening the provision of emergency care but also strengthening the argument for a national health plan.