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A New Look at Medical Training
The giant HMO Kaiser Permanente has a history of bucking the healthcare establishment by snapping up new technology and encouraging physicians with different specialties to work together. Now it's planning its own medical school to train a new generation of doctors who look like the patients in communities where they serve.
The giant HMO Kaiser Permanente has a history of bucking the healthcare establishment by snapping up new technology and encouraging physicians with different specialties to work together. Now it's planning its own medical school to train a new generation of doctors who look like the patients in communities where they serve. Chad Terhune covers healthcare for the LA Times.