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June 3, 1999, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section A; Page 26; Column
6; Editorial Desk
LENGTH: 136 words
HEADLINE: How We Can Save Teaching Hospitals
BODY:
To the Editor:
Re "Teaching
Hospitals in Trouble" (editorial, May 31): Teaching hospitals have become a
deception of the hospital industry. By claiming that they are "teaching," these
hospitals in New York State are able to take advantage of generous Medicare
financing. There are now more than 100 of these hospitals in the state, but the
vast bulk of the doctors they teach are foreign medical
graduates who come under the guise of education in
order to practice in the United States. Many of the teaching hospitals are in
effect in the indentured servant business. There is a need to develop honest
criteria for defining a teaching hospital.
BERTRAND M. BELL, M.D.
Bronx, May 31, 1999
The writer is university professor at the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University.
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