Abstract
Medical administrators must possess real expertise in studying health problems in the community; the relevant skill required is epidemiology. The problem of the association of OCAs (oral contraceptive agents) with thromboembolic disease is a major health problem which 70 medical administrators in the Ministry of Health were asked to investigate. These administrators passed on the investigative problem to the Medical Research Committee after repeated pushing from the Drug Safety Committee following a year of apparent inactivity on the part of the Ministry. The author suggests these medical administrators see themselves purely as administators passing questions to the experts in relevant fields and formulating policy rather than carry out the epidemiological studies themselves. Without the ability and opportunity to apply epidemiological methods to problems of medical care medical administration as a career will not appear attractive to physicians.
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