Catchword: bed-blocker

Filed Under: English, Medical

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: A former railway worker who paid his taxes and worked hard to put two children through private school, Ray Smith had been languishing in Launceston General Hospital since August, waiting for a bed in a secure dementia facility. Health bureaucrats cursed him as a “bed blocker,” which is ironic given Smith’s propensity to wander off up the corridor and out the front door.

Article or Document Title:
“Age and the long wait” (URL)

Author:
Kate Legge

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
The Australian

Date of Publication:
Apr. 17, 2004

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