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To the Editor: In his thought-provoking Sounding Board article (July 20 issue)¹ Mullan suggests that the number of U.S. medical schools and medical students be increased. By any combination of standard measures of health in developed countries, the United States ranks at or near the bottom of the list.² Throwing more homegrown physicians and expensive medical schools into this malfunctioning system will have a miniscule effect on our overall health. We already far exceed any other society in terms of the cost of health care and the number of physicians per capita. Unfortunately, despite the advent of managed care, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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