University of Michigan Medical and Nursing School - Aequanimitas Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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REFLECTIONS The new freshman program leads us to speculate on what may be one of its longer range effects. With the increasing number of debates concerning socialized medicine Qan intellectual euphemism being 'cmedical rights for everyonewj and the increasing social turmoil of the poor, it has been made more obvious that the medical services of our country are inequitably distributedg a large portion of the medical community has specialized in the diseases of the rich or D- gr-f--. xg: i xg?- v .V 'vi is Q' 9 la. ' ff' 1-X 3 'T v P it . 5 up ' 2 S, f if M 1 A drifted into necessary but removed research work, One might argue, however, that even if the physicians of the country were so motivated to set up hypotheticalclinics in the poor rural South or rotting city ghettoes, that there would not be enough M.D.'s to go around, that the quality of medical ser- vice would be compromised in trying to care for the masses. This argument is full of short-comings, which do not concern us now, but it does make the good point that in an economic sense, the supply of physicians is grossly less than the demand. A socialized