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"The cheapest insurance you can have" says head of UMD Shock Trauma

Published: July 3, 2024, 3:17 p.m.

If you\u2019re banged up in a car crash somewhere in the Free State or if you\u2019re shot on the street, chances are you\u2019ll be transported quickly -- maybe by helicopter -- to the R Adams Cowley Shock-Trauma Center at the University of Maryland. The sixty-five hundred badly injured patients admitted there each year get the highest level of trauma care in the U.S.

But even though it\u2019s the heart of Maryland\u2019s exceptional Emergency Medical Services, the Shock-Trauma center has struggled for money.

That changed this week. We talk with Shock-Trauma\u2019s top doctor, Dr. Thomas Scalea, about how the center's funding situation has improved dramatically.

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