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Couple Sets Up Own Medical Practice in Former Detroit Clinic.

By Kim Norris, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 5--For most of their careers, Dr. Amitabh Paharia and Dr. Arunima Shrivastava were paid by the Detroit Medical Center to practice at two of the health system's primary-care clinics in Detroit.

In October 2002, when the financially struggling DMC announced it was selling nine money-losing clinics in Detroit, the husband-and-wife team decided to lease one of the locations and set up their own practices.

For $4,800 a month in rent and taxes, Paharia and Shrivastava run th

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