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A Pearl From Medical School

A Country Doctor Writes

I ordered some lab tests, including a sed rate. Before he ever got the test, he ended up in the emergency room with pneumonia. That could have explained the abnormal lab result. At his followup appointment, he was back to feeling nonspecifically unwell and his sed rate was now 118.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

And then, so from that point on, I began to look at technology systems, processes for all settings, inpatient, outpatient care at home, a hospital at home. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. Outside of work. And who knows, you may just save a life.