A Comparison of Expenditures for Physicians' Services in the United States and Canada

To the Editor: Fuchs and Hahn (Sept. 27 issue)* address one potential liability of the Canadian health care system that has been conveniently ignored in most previous analyses. With regard to the "timeliness and convenience" of surgical and nonsurgical procedures, it is not "likely&qu...

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