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MD expenses drained the coffers at Calif. hospitals by $1.6B
California hospitals paid physicians more than $1.6 billion in nonemployee professional fees in 2008, accounting for 3.6 percent of total hospital expenses, according to healthcare data firm MD
Study: Many hospital pages sent to wrong doctor
Paging the wrong doctor can be a serious communications foul-up, particularly in an urgent situation--but it's all too common, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
