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Reader Question: Don't Schedule This Code for Late Patients
EM Coding Alert
Reader Question:
Don't Schedule This Code for Late Patients
Published on Fri Sep 27, 2019
Question: A patient called and said she thought she had a detached retina, and we scheduled her to come in at 4:00. She ended up [...]
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