All emergency medicine practitioners will have experienced the results of increased demand and exit block on our EDs. Crowded departments have made practising hallway/corridor-based medicine a daily occurrence. We already know that length of stay in hospital and mortality rates increase with crowding and that working in these conditions1 suggests patients are receiving substandard management. Certainly, there is the loss of privacy which all healthcare systems have gone to great lengths to protect and on which much of our medical teaching is premised.
Stoklosa et al2 describe two distinct non-private clinical encounters, one where the patient was seen and assessed in a hallway and the other when the patient was seen along with a companion. Both which are said to impinge on the physician's assessment of the patient. At closer reading, the premise of the survey is to determine if the assessing physician believes that...
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