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To the Editor: Having had the privilege of being trained in one of the best-organized public hospitals in America (Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio, Texas) I cannot but deplore the prospects you describe in your thoughtful editorial.¹ Helping an underserved indigent population with the best of medical technology is a highly challenging and rewarding experience that should be available to all physicians in training. It is only by treating the sickest and most needy patients that one will fully appreciate the curative potential and the curative limits of the tools of modern medicine. And only by being forced to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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