Healthcare being such a for-profit venture that it beats out so many other industries is a tragedy Making money off of people who need ambulatory services is as American as stripping the earth of natural resources. Ambulatory in general means relating to walking or capable of walking. Ambulatory medicine means the patient walks out of the treatment centre after the treatment is over, it''s outpatient care. The other.possibility is stationary care (for inpatients). Dialysis is ambulatory, the patient does not stay after treatment. Surgery (for the most part) is stationary, the patient does not generally leave the care facility the same day. The word ambulance comes from a French term meaning mobile hospital ("ambulant" in the sense that the tiny hospital itself walks, or rather drives, around). Ambulances are mostly unrelated to ambulant or stationary care. (Whether the data would count them as ambulant / stationary care depending on what the cade turned out to be, or if the data has another category of medical transport I do not know.) No, Illinois'' "insurance" industry would be home/auto insurance. Allstate and State Farm both call IL home, plus offices for more than a few other large similar insurance companies and home offices of a handful of smaller crappy insurance companies. It would be very interesting to see what this looked like in 1954.
Healthcare being such a for-profit venture that it beats out so many other industries is a tragedy
Making money off of people who need ambulatory services is as American as stripping the earth of natural resources.
Ambulatory in general means relating to walking or capable of walking. Ambulatory medicine means the patient walks out of the treatment centre after the treatment is over, it''s outpatient care. The other.possibility is stationary care (for inpatients). Dialysis is ambulatory, the patient does not stay after treatment. Surgery (for the most part) is stationary, the patient does not generally leave the care facility the same day.
The word ambulance comes from a French term meaning mobile hospital ("ambulant" in the sense that the tiny hospital itself walks, or rather drives, around). Ambulances are mostly unrelated to ambulant or stationary care. (Whether the data would count them as ambulant / stationary care depending on what the cade turned out to be, or if the data has another category of medical transport I do not know.)
No, Illinois'' "insurance" industry would be home/auto insurance. Allstate and State Farm both call IL home, plus offices for more than a few other large similar insurance companies and home offices of a handful of smaller crappy insurance companies.
It would be very interesting to see what this looked like in 1954.