For the latest stories on the science of healthy living, subscribe to NPR's Health newsletter. In between shifts in the emergency room, Dr. Dan McGee was in an Oregon courtroom. He was fighting for his practice — Eugene Emergency Physicians (EEP). The group of more than 40 doctors and physician assistants work at multiple emergency departments; it was being replaced by a national company. "This was big time, David and Goliath stuff," McGee said.