A general practitioner, wife and mother has recounted her experience with COVID-19, during which she was hospitalized for 150 days, becoming one of the first patients to be treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), special equipment that completely takes over…
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COVID-19 pandemic has led to more advanced-stage cancer diagnoses, physician survey finds
Doctors who oversee cancer clinics say that new patients are arriving for treatment with more advanced disease than before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). The national survey of radiation…
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Physician practices with more female doctors have smallest gender pay gaps
In medicine, men generally earn more than women for similar work, but a new study published July 30 in BMJ finds that the income gap between genders shrinks substantially in practices with more equal gender distributions of staff physicians. The…
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