The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 4th October 2023 Tourism sells to you the story of what it has taken away. It markets the “traditional” and “unchanging” and, in doing so, changes it. As the old joke…
I don’t think it’s a definition thing. I am US based but I’ve actually spent much of my life in Europe and my entire family lives there. Rural hospitals are not urgent care centers or health clinics. They’re smaller but they’re 100% real hospitals in the sense that both Americans and Europeans (at least in Spanish) use that word. They have 24/7 emergency care and can deal with serious health problems. However, they’re not all “trauma centers.” Trauma centers are a network with different nodes of various “levels,” and different hospitals are certified at different levels of trauma care. There’s usually only a couple of “level 1 trauma centers” in a region.