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The voters also zeroed in on the ongoing shortage of radiologists as the Biggest Threat to Radiology. He earned his medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Florida. In 2018, Fishman received an endowed professorship from Johns Hopkins.
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