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Defining Emergency

StorytellERdoc

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." To pain control issues. To mildly elevated blood pressure readings. To months of nonspecific weaknesses and fatigue. Unprotected.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

The article “ American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration ” (May 30) presents us Canadians with welcome news. In every part of Canada, in every province, there are not enough doctors. Doctors who agree to work for the armed forces receive special benefits.