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Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare walk-in clinic in Portland.
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Patrick Allen.
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Ron Irby had an Optetrak artificial knee implanted in his right leg in September 2018. Most implants last 15 years or more, but Irby’s Optetrak implant, made by Exactech in Gainesville, Florida, wore out in 2021, according to a lawsuit he filed against the company.
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Melanie Gray Miller, a pediatric resident at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, says the practice of medicine has taught doctors to minimize work-related grief and trauma. “They want us to be proud of being resilient,” Miller says. “I don’t love that culture of medicine.”
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Washington County’s Hawthorn Walk-In Center for mental health and addictions care in Hillsboro./Washington County
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