Chairman. if statistics mean anything we are told we need 40.000 more doctors. 17.800 more dentists. 150.000 more nurses. and 266.000 more allied health personnel. A rather reliable source of statistics is the Public Health Service which points out that unless we make up this gap now. the needs in 10 years by 1980 will be doubled and the shortage will be twice the figures just enumerated. Up to now. we have made no real effort toward increasing our supply of doctors unless it would happen to be the relaxation of immigration quotas to bring in a few foreign doctors. Our medical schools are in financial difficulties. In my own State of Missouri a dental school at St.
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