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- From: stpeters@crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Reliability in medicine and engineerin
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.193757.23590@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 19:37:57 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.170009.3000@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
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- In article 3000@cnsvax.uwec.edu, nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:
- > [reply to hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu]
- > I share your concern about the loss of thinkers in medicine. The
- > average GPA of applicants to medical school has fallen almost every year
- > for over a decade.
-
- There was a similar decline following the first Sputnik in 1957. As
- the space race made educating scientists and engineers a national
- priority, these fields attracted the top students that previously would
- have become physicians. I can remember a lot of concern about this at
- the time. If there was equivalent attention in following decades to an
- actual occurrence of the anticipated decline in physician quality, I
- missed it.
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- Dick St.Peters
- GE Medical Systems, New Berlin, WI stpeters@med.ge.com (temporary)
- GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@crd.ge.com (permanent & forwarded)
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