...Writing in the December, 2007 Atlantic Monthly, Medical journalist
Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is
Making Us Sicker And Poorer (Bloomsbury Press 2007), notes that U.S.
medical schools are planning to boost the number of new doctors being
graduated annually by 30 per cent from 2002 levels over the next eight
years...
Brownlee says the problematical issues are essentially two: new physicians tend to congregate in affluent communities offering a "high quality of life," in other words, places already served by… more
