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Spinal Fusions Serve As Case Study For Debate Over When Certain Surgeries Are Necessary

Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating | The Washington Post | October 24, 2013

By some measures, Federico C. Vinas was a star surgeon. He performed three or four surgeries on a typical weekday at the Daytona Beach, Fla., hospital that employed him, and a review showed him to be nearly five times as busy as other neurosurgeons. The hospital paid him hundreds of thousands in incentive pay. In all, he earned as much as $1.9 million a year... Read More »