Abstract
To the Editor. —Sylvan Weinberg's 1 article in the September 1984Archiveswould have us believe that the profession of medicine is at greater risk than a 50-year-old man with every major cardiac risk factor. The defeatist tone of the Weinberg thesis is regrettable. One of the characteristics of a physician is to analyze a problem and then to generate a plan for dealing with it. It has been said that there are no hopeless situations, only individuals who give up hope. A number of the concerns stated by Weinberg fail to impress me as evidence that the profession is at risk. The broadening of medical school admission committees away from a group composed solely of physicians, each with their special interests, does not seem entirely a bad idea to me, as it does to Weinberg. The recent broadening of admissions criteria to include women might not have occurred with
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