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To the Editor: Much as I admire Robert Kuttner's work, his history of medical education and academic health centers (Sept. 30 issue)¹ is misleading in ways that take them off the hook for their current plight. After World War II, the American Medical Association blocked proposed legislation that would have provided aid to medical students and national health insurance, as well as several other proposals, and allowed federal support only for the construction of hospitals and medical research.² The number of full-time faculty positions at medical schools had increased by 51 percent by 1950 and had doubled by 1960, largely . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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