Medic! (Did Someone Cry Wolf?).

PHYSICIANS; MEDICAL schools; MEDICAL care; MINORITIES; MEDICINE; HEALTH occupations schools; ECONOMIC forecasting

Focuses on the need to meet anticipated shortage of physicians in the U.S. Significance of government loans and grants to medical schools in the U.S.; Overview of problems that projects physician needs in the nation; Reasons behind the decline in numbers and quality of medical school applications; Rise in incomes and a growing appreciation of the desirability of regular and preventive medical and dental care, especially among minority groups; Attempts of the U.S. government to meet the shortage of physicians; Predictions about the increase in need of physicians by the year 1975; Relation of numbers who actually enter the medical profession over the next decade and economic costs and returns to people choosing medical careers.