Jean Mitchell, PhD, economist and professor of public policy, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, Washington DC. She has written numerous articles on physician self-referral arrangements and other health-care economic topics. Her most recent journal article, on urologists’ use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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