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Jim McDermott: I have never understood what the clinical basis for the 3-day rule was.

On the recordJune 13, 2013
I have never understood what the clinical basis for the 3-day rule was.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott questions the clinical justification for the 3-day hospital stay rule.

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