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In the Emergency Department, Patients from Marginalized Groups Are More Likely to be Bypassed in the Queue

In a busy hospital emergency department, White people who speak English and have private insurance are more likely to jump the line and get seen first, according to new research from Professors Lesley Meng and Edieal Pinker and Dr. Rohit Sangal ’21 of Yale New Haven Hospital.

Patients waiting in an emergency department waiting room