EPISODE · Apr 28, 2026 · 30 MIN
Why Hospital Admission Is Getting Harder
from The Brian Lehrer Show · host WNYC
Elisabeth Rosenthal, senior contributing editor at KFF Health News, former ER physician, and author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Penguin Press (hardcover, 2017)), discusses her latest reporting on how patients in emergency department are getting stuck waiting for days to be transferred into an inpatient ward. Photo: Rooms in the emergency department are made up at the new UCI Health hospital in Irvine, CA on Thursday, November 6, 2025. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal discusses how patients in emergency department are getting stuck waiting for days to be transferred into an inpatient ward.
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