Medicine, Money and Manpower — The Challenge to Professional Education
- 1 June 1967
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 276 (22) , 1234-1238
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196706012762205
Abstract
UNTIL recently, many of the shortcomings of American medicine could be blamed on inadequate financing. Education for the health professions, the distribution of medical care and even medical research were all grossly underfinanced in relation both to the health needs of the American people and to the potential inherent in twentieth-century scientific advance. Just a little over a decade ago the late Dr. Alan Gregg spoke for a host of farsighted professionals and consumers alike when he lashed out against the "cribbed, cabined, and confined" conditions of American medicine.1 As far as the availability of money is concerned, this situation . . .Keywords
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