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The health fields occupy a special place in America. Public-opinion polls show the continuing esteem in which we hold physicians (and also bioscientists) (Gallup Poll Survey, June 1976). The average physician earned $50,000 a year in 1974 (U.S. House of Representatives, 1975). Salaries for hospital personnel have been rising relative to those of other wage earners during recent years (Davis, 1972). We as a people spent more than $118 billion dollars on health care, research, and education in 1975—about 8% of the nation’s total product of goods and services. In the aggregate, the health enterprise is the nation’s third largest employer (Special Analysis, 1976).
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Schlegel, R.J. (1977). Better Health Sciences through Minority Participation: The Case for Community-Based Minority Medical Schools. In: Melnick, V.L., Hamilton, F.D. (eds) Minorities in Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5851-1_14
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