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Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD

JAMA. 2000;284:1136-1138.

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In his recent review of Ludmerer's Time to Heal,¹ Steven Schroeder, MD, concludes that Ludmerer's book "presents a powerful case that academic medicine's self-serving behavior has jeopardized its unique public trust."² Remarkably, Schroeder, a distinguished medical educator and current president and chief executive officer of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, does not take exception to this harsh indictment. One suspects that he may concur.

A permanent loss of public trust in academic medicine would be tragic. As Schroeder notes, "for most of the twentieth century academic medicine was the jewel in the crown of the US health care system."² Most students of US health care, and certainly I, would agree. Fortunately, the past tense used in Schroeder's sentence may be premature. The many contributions of academic medicine are the reason that the US health care delivery system (as distinct from its health insurance system) is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

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