Crippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily.

高昂的医疗费用、急诊室里漫长的等待，以及找不到初级护理医师，这些都只是患者每天面临的问题的冰山一角。

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As I sat in the cage of the dentist's waiting room, I watched two other patients arrive.

当我坐在牙医诊所等候室这个笼子里，我看到另外两位患者来到这里。

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In a psychiatrist's waiting room two patients are having a conversation.

在精神医生的等候室，两位病人正在谈话。

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The patients had visited the emergency room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston,Massachusetts, because of a headache.

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This time you're a doctor in an emergency room and six patients come to you.

这次你是一名急诊室的医生,有天送来了六个病人。

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The ACO takes responsibility for keeping the patients out of the hospital and emergency room and helps patients manage their conditions by getting them to take their medications appropriately and coming back for needed appointments.

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ACOs and other entities like patient-centered medical homes take responsibility for keeping patients out of the hospital and emergency room and help patients manage their conditions by getting them to take their medications appropriately and coming back for needed appointments.

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The study also comes as government and private insurers emphasize the importance and need for primary care doctors like internists through so-called Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that take responsibility for keeping patients out of the hospital and emergency room and helps patients manage their conditions by getting them to take their medications appropriately and coming back for needed appointments.

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