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The coming shortage of surgeons : why they are disappearing and what that means for our health
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The coming shortage of surgeons : why they are disappearing and what that means for our health

Author: Thomas Edwards Williams; Bhagwan Satiani; E Christopher Ellison
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger/ABC-CLIO, ©2009.
Series: Praeger series on contemporary health and living.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Edwards Williams; Bhagwan Satiani; E Christopher Ellison
ISBN: 9780313380709 0313380708
OCLC Number: 320193400
Description: xviii, 194 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Contents: The problem -- Demand for a surgical/medical workforce -- Surgical supply : residents, the future surgeons -- Constraints to supply : pertinent issues -- Calculating physician supply : the model : assumptions, relevant parameters, and the algorithm -- Orthopedic surgery -- Cardiothoracic surgery -- Otolaryngology -- Obstetrics and gynecology -- General surgery -- Neurosurgery -- Urology -- The last hurdle : the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and graduate medical education funding -- Is there a solution? : numerical projections, and improving physicians' productivity -- Challenges and consequences.
Series Title: Praeger series on contemporary health and living.
Responsibility: Thomas E. Williams, Jr., Bhagwan Satiani, and E. Christopher Ellison ; foreword by Thomas R. Russell.

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