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The Price You Cannot See
Pediatric pay is capped not by the value of the work but by the price of the payer — and where the system patches that gap, it routes the correction through channels the physician is never shown.
The Journal
Writing for, and from, physicians.
Essays on the practice and economics of pediatric medicine — what the system actually does to physicians, and what physicians can do about it. Published periodically. Always free to read.
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The Shortage That Isn't
The country does not lack pediatricians. It lacks pediatricians in the places and on the payers that the economics cannot support — and calling that a workforce shortage points the remedy in exactly the wrong direction.
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The Numbers Pediatricians Negotiate Against
How the compensation data shaping pediatric pay is produced, who pays for it, and whose constituency it is designed to serve.
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A note on what this journal is for
Why we're publishing in long form, and what readers can expect.