Shortage of Surgeons on the Way

Shortage of Surgeons on the Way

GUEST EDITORIAL By Jay Lehr, Ph.D., The Heartland Institute It’s difficult to believe that the highest-esteemed and best-compensated of all medical doctors could be in short supply in the future. But in The Coming Shortage of Surgeons (Praeger, 2009), Drs. Williams, Satiani, and Ellison—three eminent surgeons and professors at The Ohio State University—make the case clearly, based on an exposition of warning signs not obvious to those of us outside the medical profession. The book…

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