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Turnaround experts can rake in hefty fees by representing ailing companies or disgruntled creditors -- or sometimes both. Lawyers and accountants earned nearly $4 million for preparing Campeau's 6,000-page bankruptcy petition in January, and currently share fees that total about $2 million a month for advising the company...
It is also imperative to consider ethical questions in a medical profession that is changing rapidly, Peterson said. "We're trying to understand and define boundaries. Technology has advanced and led to alternatives, other possibilities."
For a school so seemingly disinterested inaltering long-standing admissions practices,Harvard has shown a surprising willingness tochange its curriculum. Many point to the NewPathways program--a still experimental teachingprogram--as an example of how Harvard MedicalSchool has met the profession's changing demands.
For now, doctors and academics are looking fora bright side to the increasing dearth of medicalstudents. Since the medical profession has becomeless appealing, many say new doctors must be morecommitted to helping people and less interested inprofits and status.
But so long as the medical profession continuesto lose its appeal, many say that kind of optimismis of little help.