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It wasn’t long ago when many Bakersfield residents sped to Los Angeles, Santa Barbara or the Bay area for medical treatments in the belief that the local medical community couldn’t handle the problem. Times have most definitely changed.      “That was when the community had a small number of primary care services and a limited number of specialty services. That era has slowly started disappearing,” says Dr. Ravi Patel, Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center’s medical director and a clinical professor at UCLA. “There are a host of sophisticated modalities which patients can access once you give them an understanding that you can get sophisticated care here. A lot of things done outside of Kern County are now being done right here.”    Along with the population explosion in Kern County, local hospitals and medical facilities have upped the game over the last decade with high-tech equipment, increased specialty...
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