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duh - money matters in specialty selection

Posted on September 10, 2008

Primary Care Physician Shortage Linked to Lower IncomeIn primary care, salaries were lower than in other specialties and residency slots were less likely to be filled, Mark Ebell, M.D., of the University of Georgia, reported in the Sept. 9 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. And the average debt for a medical school graduate has quadrupled going from $35,000 to $140,000 in the nearly 20 years since Dr. Ebell first studied salary disparities. In a 1989 study, Dr. Ebell described a linear correlation between the median income of physicians in a specialty and the ...

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