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Lebanon Pathology Crisis
Pathology in Lebanon is facing a severe shortage that threatens diagnostic accuracy and the quality of patient care. The shortage is driven by the small number of medical graduates interested in specializing in the field, the emigration of specialists amid financial and security challenges, the failure to recognize pathology as an independent medical specialty, and the lack of a fair system for determining pathologists’ fees. The crisis reflects a global imbalance in the distribution of specialists: although there are around 120,000 pathologists worldwide, lower- and middle-income countries have fewer than 10 per million people. The author called on the Ministry of Health, Social Security, the physicians’ and hospital owners’ syndicates, and the Lebanese Society of Pathology to meet and take urgent steps to safeguard the specialty and keep pace with advances in diagnosis and treatment.
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