The Nation - News from Oct. 16, 1985
A national task force recommended drastic revisions in the way physicians are trained and new funding mechanisms that will enable teaching hospitals to compete in the rapidly changing health care market. The two-year study in Boston by the Task Force on Academic Health Centers made several sweeping recommendations that, if implemented, could revolutionize the way teaching hospitals educate doctors and dramatically alter medical care for the poor and under-insured, said Dr. Robert Heyssell, president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and task force chairman.
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