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Eli Ginzberg's predictions of the future of American medicine span more decades than do the careers of most physicians. Nearly 40 years ago he caused a great ruckus when he testified to a congressional committee that the plan to enlarge the physician work force was ill advised because it would create a surplus of physicians without necessarily improving the public's health.^1,2 In the mid-1960s he called the rising per diem cost of hospitalization alarming and predicted that the increase in the number of physicians would accelerate the rise.³ Since then, many more of his predictions have proved correct. In the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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