Hospital Pulido Valente is a hospital

Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

 located in Lisbon, Portugal. It is dedicated mainly to Pulmonary Care Medicine, being the biggest hospital of this speciality in Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

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The main problems of this hospital are the extinction of the Pulmonary Emergency Department, after a political decision in 1997. This left thousands of patients without the possibility of using a specialized facility and the crisis of Pulmonary Care Medicine Department and consequent reduction of staff, mainly by the exit of junior physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

s looking for better working conditions in other institutions caused by the reestructuring of National Health Care System in 2003.