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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 1998;279:1335-1337.

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PHYSICIANS of the year 2001 and on gathered this year in March in Arlington,Va, where the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) held its 48th annual convention, entitled "Leading Medicine Into the 21st Century." Anyone who thought health care following the millennium would be wrested from the hands of physicians in favor of nonmedically trained accountants interested solely in profits would have heard a different message from this group.

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"If you want to feel good about American medicine, all you have to do is come to this convention and get a sense of what the future leaders in medicine are like," said Andrew Nowalk, PhD, a third-year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa, and AMSA's immediate past president. Members of the group "are not willing to sit back and let changes in the system happen to them. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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