Washington State Department Of Health
I’m a major care provider at the General Medicine Clinic at SFGH. Although I want I may provide my sufferers with all of their care within my clinic’s partitions, I rely on colleagues in medical and surgical specialties to help look after my patients’ issues round diabetes, coronary heart disease, arthritis, broken bones, and eyes. When my patients and I want that help, I need the same fast access to specialists’ recommendation that my in-laws obtain of their health networks. However, safety net health methods typically expertise long wait occasions for visits as a result of there’s such a excessive want for specialty clinics with limited appointment slots. The referral system will also be complicated to sufferers because of communication obstacles; over half of my sufferers converse a language other than English as their first language and have restricted health literacy.
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