Primary care docs often don’t hear how the story ends once patients handed to specialists

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Recently, I ran across a collection of hastily jotted notes from my time in an urgent care clinic. “Tachycardic … Short of breath … sent to ER — PE?” “Right-sided abdominal pain — CT — appy?” “Couldn’t swallow at all! Sent for endoscopy.”

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