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The End Of The Doctor’s Waiting Room

Dr. Dennis M. Dimitri, a family physician, runs an unusual office. Few appointments are accepted in advance – patients call in the morning and are assigned a time slot later that day and they don’t have to spend hours in a waiting room. Dimitri made the change to “open access” appointments four years ago because he wanted a way to accommodate patients without squeezing their schedules – or his own. 

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