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ONLY IN A NURSING HOME

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Residents in a nursing home must have a physician or they cannotremain in the facility. On admission, they must give uptheir family/own physician and choose onefrom a list given by the facility.A physician, who as part of his practice attends at the LynwoodNursing Home, went on an extended Christmas holiday.During this time one of his patients became ill and the physicianwho was covering for him was called but declined, saying that thoughhe wascovering for his colleague’s clients,he would not attendto his nursing home patients.