The income gap: Specialties vs primary care or procedural vs nonprocedural specialties?

Neurology

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 923-926

  Sigsbee, Bruce ^a  

^a Penobscot Bay Med Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN INCOME; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952903530     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31820f2dfd     Document Type: Article

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