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Abstract
The year 1987 witnessed the “velvet revolution” of Vaclav Havel and the beginning
of democratic reform in Czechoslovakia. As the country struggles to build a market-based
economy, it maintains a well-developed socialist system of health care that is patterned
after the former Soviet system and is free to all (Am J Emerg Med 1984;2:455–456).
Formal private medical practice does not exist. Non-emergency care is provided by
multispecialty, primary-care oriented clinics (polyklinka) where afterhours visits
are possible due to the presence of on-call physicians. In small towns such an on-call
doctor would be a general practitioner, but in large cities an internist, pediatrician,
and surgeon might all be available.
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Publication History
Accepted:
June 1,
1992
Received:
May 27,
1992
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© 1992 Published by Elsevier Inc.
