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Dr. Safdar Akbar

Managing Super Utilizers at Meritus Medical Center

Last year at Meritus Medical Center in Maryland, where I am an emergency physician, a certain patient visited the ER 81 times. We have records of at least a dozen more patients like him, though none quite as extreme. One man visited the ER 65 times in 2012. Another visited 48 times. At least two […]

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