Medical students facing a new reality

In a collection of interviews for Kaiser Health News, Allison Fero writes: "One of the groups most affected by the changes in the new health law are medical school students. When they graduate - and complete the hospital residencies that follow - they will begin practice under a system that will be significantly different than when they began college. With millions more people expected to have health insurance, demand for primary care physicians is expected to go way up" (Fero, 9/13). Read entire article. 

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