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. Docs & Pay

A study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that young male and female physicians with the same specialty earn equal amounts of money, if they work the same number of hours. Linda Wertheimer speaks with the study's author, Laurence Baker, Professor of Health Research Policy and Economics at Stanford University. Baker says that this is good news, but that among older physicians, men still earn more than women.

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