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Xavier Bosch, MD

JAMA. 1999;282:1025-1026.

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Barcelona—"To study medicine at present in Spain implies a considerable risk of not practicing, since unemployment affects 22% of physicians, and it will increase in the future if public administrations do not adopt urgent, hard adjustment measures to balance the supply and the demand," warns a report analyzing in detail the labor market for physicians in Spain.

The report, released recently by the Confederación Estatal de Sindicatos Médicos (CESM) and coordinated by Alan Maynard, PhD, a professor of health economics at York University in England, is causing concern because of its dire forecasts.

The report states that Spain currently has the most physicians in Europe. On December 31, 1998, there were 111,076 physicians—a rate of 3.5 per 1000 people. This rate is considerably higher than in other European Union (EU) countries such as France (2.5), and Germany (2.7).

YOUNG AND UNWANTED

The report committee found that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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