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From: john@ur-tut.UUCP (John Gurian)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Medical Licenses
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Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 16:46:14 EDT
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> So you see, licenses are used to force people to go to an
> authorized dealership to get medical care, and the authorizers are all
> strongly related to the AMA.  Sounds like a violation of antitrust
> laws to me.

As it turns out, the AMA has zero control of medical schools, in particular
the size of each class.  Besides, only about 50% of physicians belong to the
AMA, and the number is declining - largely because only about 20% of women
belong, and the number of women in medicine is growing year by year.

John Gurian (seismo!rochester!ur-tut!john)
Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine