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Archive > April, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 4

Surgeons for Hire

Some surgeons who fled hospitals to build competing surgery centers are now returning to hospitals, this time as employees or as partners.

Kent Steinriede, Associate Editor

When physicians left hospitals in droves in the 1990s to open their own ambulatory surgical centers, many did so to escape the inefficiencies and bureaucracy of hospital ORs.

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