A looming health-care crisis on the horizon Chicago Final Edition

Already in DuPage County early retirements and relocations among physicians are robbing our community of invaluable medical expertise. Physicians in high-risk specialties, such as neurosurgery, are declining to perform some procedures in a move to reduce their liability exposure. A gifted young surg...

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Published inChicago tribune (1963)
Main Author Lanny F Wilson, MD, Chair, Board of Directors, DuPage County Medical Society
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago, Ill Tribune Publishing Company, LLC 01.08.2003
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Glen Ellyn
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Summary:Already in DuPage County early retirements and relocations among physicians are robbing our community of invaluable medical expertise. Physicians in high-risk specialties, such as neurosurgery, are declining to perform some procedures in a move to reduce their liability exposure. A gifted young surgeon at Hinsdale Hospital, barely into his 40s, left practice this summer, denying countless future patients both his expertise and compassion, and creating a void in our family practice resident physician training program.
ISSN:1085-6706