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A growing number of Californians are being sent to ambulatory surgery centers for a wide variety of procedures, yet little is known about the care they deliver because reporting is not required.

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See how human-centered designers answered our challenge to encourage more people to complete advance directives and document their end-of-life wishes.

Ready or Not

Even with new federal resources to help, a study finds that communities with weaker safety-net systems are lagging in preparations for health reform.

Doctors and Nurses

Friday, April 13, 2012

Program Promotes Primary Care Medicine to Students

Family medicine residents at UC-Davis are participating in a program to recruit high school students -- many of whom are from low-income or ethnic minority backgrounds -- to be primary care physicians. The California Academy of Family Physicians -- which, along with Sutter Health, helped launch the program last year -- estimates that as many as 30% of California family physicians will retire in the next few years and that the state's deficit will reach 17,000 physicians by 2015.



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