Solving the VA Physician Shortage Problem: The Right Thing to Do.

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is an attending physician at the Jesse Brown VAMC and at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, both in Chicago, Illinois. He also is the Dr. Orville J. Stone Professor of Dermatology and head of the dermatology department at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Published: October 2016

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