{"title":"Prisoner health care.","authors":"D Gage, L Goldfrank","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From New York City's Bellevue Hospital comes this discussion of difficulties in dealing with a prisoner/patient population. Authors Gage and Goldfrank discuss staff bias, prisoner/patient security, and difficulties in maintaining on-going health care in a \"less than optimal system.\" While prison health is beyond the realm of work for a relatively small number of physicians, the size of the U.S. prison population makes it a significant part of health care in the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":76783,"journal":{"name":"Urban health","volume":"14 3","pages":"26-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Urban health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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From New York City's Bellevue Hospital comes this discussion of difficulties in dealing with a prisoner/patient population. Authors Gage and Goldfrank discuss staff bias, prisoner/patient security, and difficulties in maintaining on-going health care in a "less than optimal system." While prison health is beyond the realm of work for a relatively small number of physicians, the size of the U.S. prison population makes it a significant part of health care in the United States.