, looking for billing codes to identify emergency room visits, observation stays, and inpatient hospitalizations
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we're an independent, student-run newsroom.
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but shocking figures uncovered by labour yesterday show some patients are suffering agonising waits of as many as 541 days to begin treatment.
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mainstream reporters and editors and publishers are well aware that telling the truth and continuing to pound on it would undermine a basic institution of society.
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