A Comparison of the Educational Costs and Incomes of Physicians and Other Professionals
Open Access
- 5 May 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (18), 1280-1286
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199405053301807
Abstract
Efforts at physician-payment reform in the United States have focused largely on the relative incomes of primary care physicians and specialists, who more often have procedure-based practices. Comparisons of the incomes of physicians and other professional groups have received less attention.Keywords
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