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Standing on a bluff overlooking the Willamette River in North Portland on Nov. 14, 2023, Dr. Eric Seymour said he was born pro-union, but that some of his fellow hospitalists employed by the Legacy Health System have needed convincing. | LILLIAN MONGEAU HUGHES/THE LUND REPORT

Clockwise, from left to right: Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran, moderator and Portland Axios reporter Emily Harris, Providence Health Chief Executive of Behavioral Health Robin Henderson, Portland Street Response Interim Program Manager Lielah Leighton, Jonathan Mroz of Central City Concern, Multnomah Circuit Judge Nan Waller discussed promising approaches to improve behavioral health care in Portland. | SCREENSHOT, OREGON HEALTH FORUM

Gay Glenn visits her mother and brother in a nursing home in Kansas. | ARIN YOON/THE NEW YORK TIMES

An AMR ambulance at Legacy Health Good Samaritan Medical Center in Northwest Portland, Ore., on July 30, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon legislators discuss upcoming changes to Measure 110 at the Oregon State of Reform conference in Portland on Nov. 14, 2023. From left to right: Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland; Rep. Ed Diehl, R-Stayton; and Rep. Thuy Tran, D-Portland. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Lalit Bajaj, an emergency medicine doctor at Children’s Hospital Colorado, with fellow emergency physician Julia Fuzak Freeman. To reduce unnecessary X-rays and antibiotics, Bajaj and his colleagues implemented new protocols in 2015 to educate parents on bronchiolitis, how to manage symptoms until kids get better, and why imaging or medication is unlikely to help. | AUSTIN DAY/CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO

Christine Rogers of Wake Forest, North Carolina, was asked to complete a mental health questionnaire as part of her annual physical. Her physician then asked about her responses, and she replied that she was having a hard year after the death of her mother. The brief conversation landed her with a charge for a separate consultation with her physician. | KATE MEDLEY/KFF HEALTH NEWS