title: The PR war isn't the real war.
abstract: Although hospitals are losing the competition for headlines and television news time, public opinion can make itself evident with astonishing force when hospitals are threatened.
mesh_terms: D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007484:Iowa; D011639:Public Opinion; D011641:Public Relations; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States; D014488:United States Health Resources and Services Administration