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Economists On Academic Medicine: Elephants In A Porcelain Shop?

The nation’s academic health centers (AHCs) educate and train our health professionals, and many from other nations. They provide cutting-edge tertiary care for Americans and for many desperate foreigners who have lost all hope for relief at home. Finally, they are the locus of the basic and applied biomedical research that advances the state of the art in medicine for the world.

AHCs’ highly skilled clinicians and researchers are dedicated and not excessively paid—certainly not by the standards of their intellectual peers in other fields. Furthermore, in a nation whose political leaders have become comfortable with having health care be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Social Mission In Peril

 

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Elephants In The Porcelain Shop

 

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