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Let's suppose you want to know how much specialized medical care — how many specialists and how many specialized diagnostic and therapeutic services — this country really needs.One way to approach this question would be to go to the experts and ask them to calculate the answers on the basis of the estimated prevalence and incidence of diseases and the kinds of personnel and services needed to provide the appropriate medical care. That is the approach taken, for example, in the recent report of the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC), which used panels of consultant specialists in . . .
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Arnold S. Relman (1980) studied this question.
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