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In shift, doctors 'on call' get pay

Hospitals break with ER tradition

Kevin Bresnahan, chief of emergency physicians at Cape Cod Hospital (center) consulted with physician Craig Cornwall in the hospital's emergency room last week.
By Christopher Rowland
Globe Staff / April 15, 2007

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Some Massachusetts hospitals have started paying surgeons and other medical specialists up to $1,000 for "on call" emergency room shifts, breaking with decades of medical tradition. (Full article: 1152 words)

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