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To the Editor: The article by Goodman et al. (May 16 issue)¹ and the accompanying editorial by Grumbach² criticize what these authors interpret as excessive concentrations of neonatologists in response to profit-maximizing behavior by hospitals — proof that there are too many specialists. However, a casual inspection of the maps in Figure 1 of the article reveals that most areas with high ratios of neonatologists to neonates are not hotbeds of health care competition but, rather, sparsely populated regions of the country, such as Alaska, Appalachia, northern Maine, western Texas, and the Dakotas. These higher ratios do not represent an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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