Harry Severance, MD, adjunct assistant professor at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University School of Medicine, recently spoke with Becker's to discuss the biggest threats to physicians.
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Racial and ethnic health disparities cost the U.S. $451 billion in 2018, according to a study published May 16 on JAMA Health Network.
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Lindsay Grier Arthur, MD, is the newly appointed chair of the department of surgery at Saint Peter's University Hospital and surgeon-in-chief for the Children's Hospital at Saint Peter's in New Brunswick, N.J.
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare co-founder Thomas Frist, MD, is the wealthiest physician billionaire, according to Forbes' real-time net worth tracker.
Former Denton, Texas physician Stanley Charles Evans was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for drug trafficking violations.
California and New York employ the highest number of physicians in several specialties.
Among five medical specialties with the largest pay gaps between men and women, men earned an average of $447,484 whereas women earned $377,732, according to Physicians Thrive's "2023 Physician Compensation Report."
Women working as physicians typically earn less than 80 percent of what their male counterparts made each year, according to Physicians Thrive's "2023 Physician Compensation Report."
The U.S. is expected to be short 17,800 to 48,000 primary care physicians by 2034, and 1 in 4 physicians foresee burnout as a top reason to consider in their retirement decisions.