Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2014 Aug;138(8):1000-1. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2014-0071-ED.
Social media: pathologists' force multiplier.
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- From the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
"Doctors make up a small percentage of the population in the United States (about 0.29%, or 1 in 300 people),1 and pathologists make up a small percentage of doctors (about 18 000 of the 885 000 doctors, or about 0.2% of doctors).1,2 Pathologists therefore make up only about 0.006% of the population of the United States. Pathologists cannot sway legislators solely by appealing as a numerically powerful constituency; nor can we sway other policymakers, including administrative leaders and quasi-legal agencies, by force of sheer numbers. Further, pathologists' relatively small number significantly hinders our ability to educate society about the pathologist's professional role and the value we provide to patients. Many people, including policymakers, have little or no idea what pathologists do, perhaps other than perform autopsies like Quincy or Ducky. Lots of people do not even know pathologists are physicians."
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