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...Zealand (970 each). About half of the U.S. doctors are absorbed by specialties (50,000), hospitals (27,000), government service (more than 12,000) and various sidelines, leaving a scant 100,000 general practitioners-about one for every 1,500 people. How this compares with the G.P. ratio in other countries, the A.M.A. could...
Last week Radcliffe students drew lots to determine who would get the first shot at living quarters for the coming school year. Lot-drawing is carried out by classes, and a ratio of the four classes is maintained in each dormitory. While this is seemingly a simple and equitable system for assigning rooms, one flaw makes the current method unfair...
Ideally, there are ten copies of a particular book for every hundred prospective users. Five dishonest men can halve the ratio and "cause trouble for 100 others," McNiff pointed...
...main trouble is the high cost of a Harvard education. Like almost every other item on the market today, this popular commodity now costs one half again as much as it did ten years ago. Tuition was then $400. Now it is $600. In an equal ratio with tuition have risen all the travel and living expenses associated with a College career. It now costs a man $1,600 or $1,700 a year to come to Harvard from Chicago according to the Assistant to the Provost, while ten years ago the Chicago student could...
Actually, the AMA's deductions are consistent with the report made in 1932 by the Commission on Medical Education headed by President Lowell. That study predicted that if the maximum number of medical students graduated per year the physician population ratio would be 1 to 740. Furthermore, the report expressed the opinion that even with an average number of students graduating yearly, the medical profession was becoming overpopulated...