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'Scuse me? What do you mean they're 'placebo patients'?' 'They're actually homeless people that sick people have hired to stand in line for them.''
'Scuse me? What do you mean they're 'placebo patients'?' 'They're actually homeless people that sick people have hired to stand in line for them.''
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'Scuse me? What do you mean they're 'placebo patients'?' 'They're actually homeless people that sick people have hired to stand in line for them.''

Vance Rodewalt was the political cartoonist for the Calgary Herald newspaper. Issue: Provincial politics, economic conditions, and health care in Alberta; emergency room waiting times; homelessness. A nurse braces the bulging door between the waiting room and the emergency room. 
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Date 2007-02-27 
Creator Rodewalt, Vance
Genre Photographs
Place Alberta
Subject Alberta--Economic conditions, Alberta--Politics and government, Alberta--Public health, Caricatures and cartoons, Homeless persons, Hospitals--Emergency service, Nurses, Physicians, Political satire
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Repository Glenbow Archives
Fonds/Collection Vance Rodewalt fonds
Reference code CA ACU GBA F3016 
Link to Finding Aid https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/vance-rodewalt-fonds
Unique identifier CU235475 
Legacy Identifier m-9457-1065 
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Attribution "'Scuse me? What do you mean they're 'placebo patients'?' 'They're actually homeless people that sick people have hired to stand in line for them.''", 2007-02-27, (CU235475) by Rodewalt, Vance. Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.