The Nation - News from Sept. 26, 1986
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Graduates of U.S. medical schools are getting deeper and deeper in debt, with the average $30,000 burden nearly double what it was in 1980, an American Medical Assn. survey said. At the same time, Medicare cuts and hospital economizing have severely reduced the number of supervised clinical programs for students and for the pool of patients they can observe, Dr. Richard Egan, secretary of the AMA’s Council on Medical Education, said. Both changes, Egan said, signal a potential crisis for the nation’s medical resources.
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