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As hospitals curtailed elective procedures to make way for COVID-19 patients and doctor offices, clinics and other health facilities closed across the country due to safety and shelter-at-home orders, physicians lost their jobs or had their hours curtailed dramatically, physician staffing firm Merritt Hawkins said in their annual 2020 review of physician and advanced practitioner recruiting incentives. Still, Merritt Hawkins executives see the job market improving as do teaching hospitals and medical schools that continue to churn out record numbers of future physicians.
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