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The Download: Emergency waits, primary care crisis trouble UMass Memorial head

By CommonWealth Beacon  
   August 12, 2025

The Bay State is already struggling with a primary care provider crisis, and the head of the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Central Massachusetts sees an increasingly grim road ahead if current trends persist. This week on the monthly Health or Consequences episode of The Codcast, John McDonough of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute speak with Eric Dickson, president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health. 

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