Last year, 64 percent of job offers filled through Merritt Hawkins, a physician placement firm, involved hospital employment. That stands in comparison with only 11 percent in 2004, and the firm anticipates a rise to 75 percent in the next two years, according to the report. Hospitals are on a “feeding frenzy” — as one economist called it in the report — as they bid for physicians and offer attractive employment deals with incomes that are sometimes greater than private practice.
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