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Study Examines Doctors' Uncompensated Daily Work
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine details primary care doctors' chores, such as answering phone calls and e-mails, refilling prescriptions, reviewing lab work, that are seldom paid for. The situation could get worse with large numbers of uninsured patients looking for physicans under the new health law.
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