"hallway medicine" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000 January 16, James Brooke, “Full Hospitals Make Canadians Wait and Look South”, in New York Times, retrieved 2019-03-22",
          "text": "Further west, in Winnipeg, \"hallway medicine\" has become so routine that hallway stretcher locations have permanent numbers.",
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          "ref": "2011 November 2, Pamela Cowan, “Hallway medicine in congested ERs”, in Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Canada, retrieved 2019-03-22",
          "text": "For the past month, the Regina General Hospital and the Pasqua Hospital in Regina have had more patients than beds, so hallway medicine is being practised in their emergency departments.",
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          "ref": "2019 February 14, Bob Bell, “Are private home-care companies about to become more profitable?”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 2019-03-22",
          "text": "The premier's health platform commitments were to eliminate hallway medicine and increase long-term care beds and mental illness services.",
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        "A state of affairs in which patients are assigned to and treated in beds or gurneys located in hospital hallways due to a shortage of hospital rooms."
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        "(chiefly Canada, medicine) A state of affairs in which patients are assigned to and treated in beds or gurneys located in hospital hallways due to a shortage of hospital rooms."
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          "word": "hallway health care"
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          "word": "hallway hospitalization"
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          "ref": "2000 January 16, James Brooke, “Full Hospitals Make Canadians Wait and Look South”, in New York Times, retrieved 2019-03-22",
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          "ref": "2011 November 2, Pamela Cowan, “Hallway medicine in congested ERs”, in Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Canada, retrieved 2019-03-22",
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        "(chiefly Canada, medicine) A state of affairs in which patients are assigned to and treated in beds or gurneys located in hospital hallways due to a shortage of hospital rooms."
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