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Show DOCTORS ARE TOO fllllROUS Ml Chicago, Feb. 2S. "The United . States supports too many physicians. ; While Europe maintains tho proportion propor-tion of one physician ta every 1,500 , people, the United Slates has a phy- , slcian for every 568. This over-pro- ! ductlon is due to our too numerous low grade medical schools and to tho laxity of our schools governing them. It Is tlmo that tbo country adopted means to relievo itself of this burden." bur-den." Henry S. Pritchctt of New York, president of the Carnegie. Foundation for the advancement of teaching mado this assertion today in an address ad-dress before the council on medical education of the American medical , association. . j "Our low grade medical fchools," he continued, "sanctioned by our laws, are largely responsible. It is i admitted that the tralniDg of doctors J from tho low grade schools is poor, but it is dmetantly asserted that I these doctors are needed for the rural j districts. The, . assumption Is that graduates of the medical schools con- 1 nc-cted with the universities will not go into the rural fields. Thi6 assumption as-sumption is false. Our investigations show us that our moro expansively , tialned doctors go into the country Just as the poorly trained doctors do. I The Johns Hopkins university grad- ' uates have gone Into 32 states and , territories. This shows .they do not all congregate In tho big cities. Another An-other argument advanced in behalf of . the low grade schooln Is that in fa- ' vor of the poor boy. This argument , ir. based not upon consideration for , the poor boy and still less upon con- ; sideratlon for tho public, but upon the desire to run a medical school. i "The truth is that tho medical edu- ; cation which tbc poor boy ban to pay for, will cost blm just as much as j would something better." |