To the Editor: The contents of a spate of books and articles in popular, scientific and medical journals indicate that the Government, doctors, medical schools and the consumers –who ultimately pay, though often little considered – are all aroused by the problems of the distribution and quality of medical care, as well as the education of qualified doctors. These problems seem to me inseparable. Fortunately, committees on admission and curriculum planning and the deans of medical schools are actively concerned with these problems.In the first place, there is a generally admitted shortage and maldistribution of physicians both quantitatively and . . .