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World-Class Health-Care Providers U.S. News & World Report vetted hospitals around the country to determine the ones that provide the highest- quality care. These 20 hospitals made the 2019-20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll. 1 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 2 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 3 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 4 Cleveland Clinic 5 New York-Presbyterian Hospital- Columbia and Cornell, New York 6 UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 7 UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco 8 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 9 NYU Langone Hospitals, New York 10 Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago 11 University of Michigan Hospitals- Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor 12 Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California 13 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston 14 Mount Sinai Hospital, New York 15 UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh 16 Keck Hospital of USC, Los Angeles 17 University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison 18 Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania- Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia 19 Mayo Clinic-Phoenix 20 Houston Methodist Hospital 21 Yale New Haven Hospital, Connecticut Doctors On Demand House calls are making a comeback. Amid COVID-19, when many people want to avoid sitting in a doctor’s waiting room, house calls are a safer ticket to treatment. According to SEMrush, a data analytics company, search volume for in-home doctor visits spiked in January and February, with searches for “in-home doctor visits” surging 135 percent , “on- call doctors” by 285 percent and “in- home medical care” by 400 percent . Source: BizJournals.com Snapshot: A Week Of An M.D. Hea l t h Ca r e 56 % of medical doctors see patients 35-40 hours per week 62 % spend 13-24 minutes with each patient 38 % of doctors work on paperwork 10-19 hours per week 32 % spend more than 20 hours per week on paperwork 27 % of physicians feel challenged by an abundance of rules and regulations 16 % feel overwhelmed with long hours 15 % feel frustrated having to work with difficult patients 44 % of physicians report feeling burnt out But the bright side: 90 % of doctors are satisfied with their career choice and 61% say they would encourage others to pursue a medical career Source: PatientPop.com Chones / Gelpi / rnl / Shutterstock.com 64 | SEPTEMBER 2020 | GROW