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Hantavirus risk overblown, doctors say, as telemedicine fraud sentences land
Original: Physicians say hantavirus headlines outpace actual risk; three sentenced in Moscow-based $2B telemedicine fraud; 1 in 10 surgeons leave the profession within 8 years – Morning Medical Update
Physicians are pushing back on hantavirus coverage, arguing news headlines have exaggerated the actual risk to the public. In other medical news, three people have been sentenced in a Moscow-based telemedicine fraud scheme worth roughly $2 billion, and new figures show one in ten surgeons leave the profession within eight years. The stories are circulating in a medical news roundup.
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