No one wants to be in a hospital, ever! But for many illnesses or accidents, hospitalization is needed. Lengths of hospital stays used to be very long, 7-14 days. But with the increased costs of health care in America, insurance companies, hospitals and physicians have taken steps to shorten the length of hospitalizations.

In a recent article, Dr. P. Kaoboli and coauthors studied how long patients were staying in VA hospitals (Annals of Internal Medicine,…

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