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When discharged from hospitals, homeless face a bleak dilemma

"The real problem lies with patients who are not sick enough to be admitted to the hospital but too sick to recuperate on the streets, because the shelters don't have the ability to treat these patients. They end up in a kind of no-man's zone."

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Posted: Thu, Aug. 30, 2012, 12:00 AM

When discharged from hospitals, homeless face a bleak dilemma

Samantha Melamed

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