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Autonomy is on many physicians' minds as the workforce becomes increasingly consolidated and the number of employed physicians grows. 

Cleveland-based MetroHealth System appointed Marie Crandall, MD, chair of its department of surgery.

The anesthesia provider shortage is a continuing obstacle in care provision, as reimbursements decline and physicians leave the workforce. 

Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD, Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD, and Nahel Elias, MD, surgeons at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically edited pig kidney into a living patient — the first procedure of its kind.

Many physicians and organizations are fighting to get noncompete agreements — which prohibit them from seeing patients for one to two years within a geographic region if they are fired or quit their job — banned or restricted. 

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