Should old folks who have lived their lives be allowed to place a huge economic burden on the young by using a disproportionate amount of limited Medicare resources for medical care?
To participate in physician workforce policy, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education must be protected from enforcement of antitrust law.
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The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine Family Medicine Accelerated Track reduces costs while encouraging medical students to pursue family medicine.
By studying both basic economic theory and the social and philosophical values that underpin medical decision making, medical students will be prepared to make better resource allocation decisions.
Patients who have been encouraged to think of themselves as consumers and a medical system that is driven by individual demands rather than big-picture planning can undermine fairness in the distribution of vaccines.