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Some Thoughts On The White-Follows-Green Law

During my residency years there was a sardonic comment often applied to colleagues departing for lucrative practices. "White follows green," the adage went, meaning that doctors went where the money was. The provocative thesis of Richard Cooper and his colleagues has raised this flippancy to the level of an economic principle, suggesting an inevitability to the growth in the physician supply and the associated costs of an ever enlarging complement of medical practitioners.

The problem with Cooper and colleagues’ thesis that physician supply consistently correlates with GDP (gross domestic product) or personal income is that it suggests a wealth-driven inexorability . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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