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Fee-for-service Professors

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, students in medical schools paid fees directly to their professors — a fee for each course of instruction. The great John Hunter’s fatal attack of angina pectoris…

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The Politics of Medicine

The doctor likes to picture himself as a freewheeling individualist. But from the day he enters medical school he must learn—if he wants to succeed—to play ball with a tight…

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