Who administers? Who cares? Medical administrative and clinical employment in the United States and Canada.

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Published in Am J Public Health on February 01, 1996

Authors

D U Himmelstein1, J P Lewontin, S Woolhandler

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, MA 02139, USA.

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