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Archive > January, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 1

Editor's Page

It's Not Polite to Ask About Profitability

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Dan O You'll gladly let us inspect your paychecks, revealing every comma and zero to us in our annual salary surveys. Thank you to the 425 of you who responded to this year's survey, the results of which we report in "Is Your Compensation Fair?" (page 24). But you're rather uncomfortable showing us your reimbursement checks; you shielded them from our prying eyes by holding them close to your scrubs, and smacked our hands when we tried to sneak a peek at them for "Now You See Them: 5 Profitable Procedures" (page 44).

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