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Within the profession itself, the AMA feels that a spirit of competition might develop between doctors that would hurt their practices. Worst of all, the group believes that the federal scholarships would extend one step further the encroachment of the government into the affairs of medical schools and lead eventually to their nationalization...
...AAMC objected to such a plan because they thought some medical students signed up might be seriously maladjusted to work in rural areas. With the AMA, the medical schools did not press to increase enrollments but thought that government aid should be extended to students already in medical schools...
...discussion of the indenture clause brings up the further question of the distribution of physicians. Though the AMA's figures probably reflect the consideration that there is an adequate supply of doctors, they do not consider how well those doctors are spread. While the supply of physicians in a city like New York is generally 3 to 4 times as great than the national average, some rural areas have only one doctor for every 1500 or 2000 people...
Inducement of physicians to rural areas, the medical groups think, cannot be forced. The AMA spokesman at the July hearings stated that "one of our large philanthropic foundations has experimented with such a program (indenture) and found it to be unsatisfactory...
...able to help many students every year who otherwise would be unable to go through medical school. Our principle consideration is need. We do not want Harvard Medical School to become a school for rich men's sons." The final alternative suggested was state and local scholarships; the AMA thought that if any governmental aid was needed it ought to come from and be controlled by the region concerned...