A Study in Medical Action — The Student Health Organizations
- 11 July 1968
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 279 (2) , 74-80
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196807112790205
Abstract
A man should share the action and passion of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell HolmesPERHAPS for the first time in the history of American medical education the student is participating in the analysis and alteration of the process by which doctors are produced. No effort on the part of medical schools can meet the current shortage of 50,000 physicians that the Surgeon General cites.1 Qualitative changes must be made to produce a new kind of health professional who will grapple with the health crisis in America. The schools themselves, until the . . .Keywords
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