We must also reconstruct the means of financing medical education and of selecting medical students. Ultimately. we should develop a System which would provide free medical school tuition in return for several years of public service by young doctors. Until we make those basic changes. however. we cannot let our medical manpower gap increase. The Department of Health. Education. and Welfare estimates that we will need by 1975 40.000 more doctors than our present production plus immigration of foreign doctors will produce. These 40.000 doctors will not be produced either magically or painlessly. We will start producing more doctors today if we pass these expensive but vital amendments which our country needs so desperately.
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