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1 At the time this article was written, Donna La May Newman was a student in the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the University of Southern California's (USC) Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Calif. She now practices in outpatient internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente's Baldwin Park (Calif.) Medical Center, is co-visionary and an adjunct primary care provider at Community 43's integrative mental wellness outpatient clinic in Phoenix, Ariz., and practices with Alliance Urgent Care in the Greater Phoenix area. Mary Kate Erdman is an orthopedic traumatology fellow at Harborview Medical Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. Darryl Mayo teaches clinical family medicine in USC's Primary Care Physician Assistant Program. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
1 At the time this article was written, Donna La May Newman was a student in the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the University of Southern California's (USC) Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Calif. She now practices in outpatient internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente's Baldwin Park (Calif.) Medical Center, is co-visionary and an adjunct primary care provider at Community 43's integrative mental wellness outpatient clinic in Phoenix, Ariz., and practices with Alliance Urgent Care in the Greater Phoenix area. Mary Kate Erdman is an orthopedic traumatology fellow at Harborview Medical Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. Darryl Mayo teaches clinical family medicine in USC's Primary Care Physician Assistant Program. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.