Disparity Between Anesthesiology Residency Applicants and the US Population?

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Conflicts of Interest: E. G. Pivalizza is on the speaker’s bureau for Haemonetics Corp as a clinical expert on thrombelastograhy, which has no relevance to this submission. No other authors declared Conflicts of Interest.

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