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Harold Varmus, cancer researcher, PLoS founder and Nobel prize winner, may be headed towards running the National Cancer Institute, if the predominant rumors are to be believed, replacing John Niederhuber.

Varmus is the president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and obviously a major force in cancer research. I really started liking him when I happened to hear an interview with him on National Public Radio last year. He seems like a creative, intelligent, disruptive innovator (that's a good thing) and I hope the rumors are true.

Are you curious about how oncologists' revenue for a hospital match up against surgeons or primary care? Now we have a sense of things via a survey sent to over 110 hospitals and summarized in the Wall Street Journal last week. I was not surprised to see that we fell below neurosurgeons, orthopedists and cardiologists, but I was surprised that primary care (FP and internal medicine) beat us, and that we beat OB, urology, and opthalmology.