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Editor's Page
The Return of the Prodigal Surgeon
Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Dan O As doctors in some of the most lucrative fields of medicine do more of their cases in ASCs and office-based surgery suites than ever before, community hospitals around the country are doing all they can to lure prodigal surgeons back to their ORs, dangling such perks as medical office space, two-OR scheduling and handpicked surgical staffs to reclaim the cases they'd lost to alternate-site facilities.

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