Oncology staffing crisis: "this is a labor camp".

The status as of today at the Summer Oncology Academy was presented on Wednesday by Prof. Maciej Krzakowski, MD, national consultant in clinical oncology, head of the Lung and Chest Cancer Clinic at the National Cancer Institute - National Research Institute in Warsaw, and president of the Polish Society of Clinical Oncology. As he said, according to data provided by provincial consultants in clinical oncology, we had 1116 specialists in June. It is clear that there is an uneven distribution, although the disparity is huge. More than a quarter of specialists (300) work in Mazovia, another 150 in Silesia. These are the only regions with more than a hundred specialists. A...