A majority of adult patients aged 18 and older believe their physicians "always" or "usually" listen to them carefully, according to recent statistics from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality's Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
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Oklahoma State University Medical Center in Tulsa has completed $25 million in renovations, according to a Tulsa World report.
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