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Workforce Issues

Have your operative procedures increased, decreased? Have you deferred retirement?  Who covers your database and clinical staff costs?  Will you continue to participate in Medicare?  These questions and many more were surveyed in the just released 2005 STS/AATS Practice Survey.  Click here to view the survey and examine the national and regional trends affecting the specialty.