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| | Public Teaching Hospital |
 | | The U.S. health care system relies on public teaching hospitals and their clinics and emergency departments, free-standing ambulatory care centers, chronic care facilities, hospices, and individual or group practices for service to vulnerable populations and the clinical education of physicians and other health care professionals. |
 | | Thus, medical school and teaching hospitals have formed a dynamic partnership for health care, clinical education, and research application. |
 | | Thus, these teaching hospitals are essential not only because they are the "classrooms" for physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, but also because they can use new therapies, surgeries, and technologies to treat and cure patients. |
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