Accountability

As frontline emergency doctors risk all to fight COVID-19, their pay is slashed

Abstract: Even as frontline emergency room doctors are cheered as national heroes, the private equity-backed firms that employ them are slashing their pay to counteract downturns in corporate revenue.

Publication: Houston Chronicle

Date Published: April 23, 2020

Author(s): Jenny Deam

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