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Medical schools should continue to implement affirmative action policies for admitting minority students since studies of medical careers show that most poor and minority communities are served by minority doctors. A high correlation was found between the race of the physician and the minority communities they served, so that a decline in minority doctors might limit the access to care needed by such communities. At the same time, affirmative action based on economic level would also be inadequate to fill the demand for doctors to work in underserved areas.
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Most health maintenance organizations are assigning gatekeeper roles to physicians in deciding whether to use echocardiography to screen phen-fen patients. This has put physicians in a difficult position. The screening procedure is expensive, and may reveal heart damage possibly caused by the phen-fen prescription the physicians may themselves have written.
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Physician Gloria Jackson Bacon oversees a medical clinic in Chicago, IL's Altgeld Gardens-Murray Homes. The clinic serves the people living in public housing programs. Bacon stresses the need to treat patients with care and concern. The clinic has helped to reduce infant mortality and to improve the health of the community.
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