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To the Editor: Green et al. (June 28 issue)¹ may have severely underestimated how the changes in medicine and society have affected emergency medicine. In their reanalysis of the monthly prevalence of illness in the community and the roles of various sources of health care, they report that 13 of 1000 persons visit an emergency department per month. That would mean for the U.S. population of 280 million a total of approximately 43 million visits per year. This number is very different from a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on use of emergency departments from the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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