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Defining Emergency

StorytellERdoc

Lately, though, it seems the system meant to provide this care is being bogged down by questionable decision-making. Instead of providing emergent care, it seems I spend at least half of my emergency room time now playing doctor to chronic illnesses. To office appointments sent to the ER because "we are overbooked today."

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

I joined SCPMG straight from residency in 2006. Can we talk more about the evolving landscape within which we all have to operate as Kaiser Permanente, but also as physicians and health care providers and how patients’ perceptions and the experience they have can impact those choices and the business of medicine?

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