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What is a pulmonologist?

A pulmonologist is an internal medicine doctor (a general practitioner) who has gone through additional years of training focused on the study of the respiratory system. Pulmonologists generally do far more than just treating the lungs. They have training in autoimmune diseases, critical illness, and often use all the general medical training they obtained prior to training in pulmonology. Because of this, you see pulmonologists in many settings - from outpatient doctors’ offices to in the intensive care unit, taking care of the sickest patients in the hospital.

* Savings estimate based on a study of more than 1 billion claims comparing self-pay (or cash pay) prices of a frequency-weighted market basket of procedures to insurer-negotiated rates for the same. Claims were collected between July 2017 and July 2019. R.Lawrence Van Horn, Arthur Laffer, Robert L.Metcalf. 2019. The Transformative Potential for Price Transparency in Healthcare: Benefits for Consumers and Providers. Health Management Policy and Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 3.

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