Word: scarcest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patients have to wait too long because doctors are too busy? It depends mainly on where they live. Britain has almost enough doctors: one for every 1,100 people (as compared to one for 830 in the U.S.), but they are badly distributed. General practitioners are scarcest and in greatest demand. Most of southern England and the big cities have plenty, while rural areas and small towns in the north are doctor-starved. There, NHS sometimes has to let one G.P. sign up 4.000 patients. The general maximum allowed is 3,500, and the average list...
...back to classes until they had written their individual apologies to the Emperor. That left Ethiopia where it had always been, or perhaps a step or two backward. One Ethiopian diplomat noted bitterly that the fighting had wiped out an inordinate number of the country's scarcest commodity-well-educated...