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SPOTLIGHT: CA faces specialist flight from EDs
Specialists are becoming an increasingly precious commodity in emergency departments across the U.S. But even by national standards, things are particularly bad in California, whose Medi-Cal program has some of the lowest retention rates in the country. These low rates, combined with other forces giving specialists the ability to refuse on-call schedules, are creating a crisis in the state's EDs. Article
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