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To the Editor: Blumenthal's article on the physician-supply debate (April 22 issue)¹ provides an excellent review of the history of workforce analyses and of the academic debates and public policies surrounding them. His conclusions, and those of other analysts in the field, focus on physician demand and supply because physicians are the common unit of measurement. It is time, however, to move beyond the physician as the principal unit of analysis in workforce studies. The more appropriate unit of measurement should be the medical services needed or demanded to meet patients' requirements. When this is the case, the analytic question . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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