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Astro workforce study which was done after much hand wringing and was watered down... Still shows an eventual oversupply. Or perhaps ask yourself where the "evidence" came for residencies to expand as much as they did since the turn of the century? Especially during an era of less treatment of...

No different than PP where you are paid per CPT code. 💯 Unfortunately when you have an oversupply, this kind of crap happens and is accepted by someone eventually

The biggest difference is that derm/plastics/GU etc are smart enough to control their numbers coming out while we are full bore off the cliff at this point with residency expansion and the prisoner's dilemma

Ftfy....

I think it's perfectly emblematic of ASTROs problems with membership and connecting with those ROs outside of the academic industrial complex. Quite frankly mantz is the kind of insular candidate that is going to get through the nomination process and keep leading the organization to nowhere

It was a murder suicide. So sad for that family

Hopefully they will call said doxxed members places of work as well and harrass them through their employers.

I had been using decipher quite a bit, a lot of payors cover it and sometimes I just need a tie breaker, nice to see an oncotype DX type thing finally make it into the guidelines for PCa I'll have to check out the update, thanks

inpatient admissions for infections, leaks, breaks in tx etc

Less common now but definitely a few years ago. Pretty good predictor of needing a treatment break or them ending up in the hospital and getting a forced treatment break

Orgovyx claim to fame is rapid T/🦴 recovery (maybe because of poor compliance, but not hard to draw T levels while they are on it).

For those of us > 60 miles from an esophagectomy center of excellence, maybe it'll change the game for some but not all patients. Moreover, this data is all from a pre IO era. Many of us don't feel comfortable treating to 41.4 to begin with because it's a dice roll for many of my patients on...

I honestly don't see the point of doing either

Gastric vs GE-J. I agree XRT is already pretty much dead in gastric CA