1. Doctoring deprived areas.
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Hastings, Adrian and Rao, Mohan
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MEDICAL care of poor people , *MEDICAL care , *GENERAL practitioners , *PUBLIC health - Abstract
Editorial. Discusses evidence of an impending critical shortfall in general practitioners to work in deprived areas in Great Britain. Decrease in the number of medical students specializing in general practice; How a planned increase in enrollment at medical schools may not solve the shortfall problem; Opinion that doctors need to be trained and better compensated to work in deprived areas.
- Published
- 2001
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