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Is Uber the New Ambulance? Financial Concerns May Be Driving This Trend for Many Emergency Department Patients

By Nida F. Degesys, MD | on December 5, 2017 | 0 Comment
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BIO: Dr. Degesys is an EM resident at the University of California, San Francisco–San Francisco General Hospital and the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) representative to the ACEP Board of Directors.

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