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SPOTLIGHT: CA faces specialist flight from EDs
April 25, 2008 — 6:59am ET
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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