More Physicians Does not Necessarily Lead To Better Health Care

In a commentary in this week's JAMA Drs. Goodman and Grumbach from Dartmoutb argue that more physicians do not lead to improved health care outcomes, other than in physician shortage areas when more primary care services are introduced. The current rush by the AMA and AAMC to produce more doctors will only increase the cost of medical care in the U.S. without improving the undelying defects in the system. The members of the choir wll appreciate this article, the heathens will ignore it. [JAMA, January 23, 2008—Vol 299, No. 3, p335]