
The pandemic has made physician independence even more precarious.

Chris Mazzolini is the editorial director of Medical Economics. Before entering B2B publishing, he worked as a daily newspaper reporter, covering state government, local politics, and military affairs in Jacksonville and Wilmington, North Carolina. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Kenyon College. He lives in the Cleveland area.

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