Dr. Vertelney is an emergency medicine resident at the University of California, San Francisco.
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ACEP Now: Vol 40 – No 07 – July 2021
Dr. Garcia is a hospice and palliative medicine fellow at Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Isaacs is an emergency physician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; and immediate past Chair of the ACEP Palliative Medicine Section.
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