PEDIATRICS Vol. 54 No. 2 August 1974, pp. 249-251
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Intellectual Elitism Attacked

Reed E. Pyeritz Ph.D.1

1 Teaching Fellow in Biological Chemistry, Medical Student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

There is today universal agreement on the existence of a health care crisis in this country, and total lack of agreement on how to improve the situation. Dr. David Nathan in his commentary1 proposes no solutions, but rather suggests people whom he feels are best qualified to effect a cure, and, by implication, the manner by which solutions should be sought. Beginning with the trenchant observation of Dr. David Rogers2 (not found, incidently, in the reference cited by Dr. Nathan3) that academic medical centers are partly to blame for the present health care mess and that they should aid society in correcting the situation, Dr. Nathan calls for established, research-oriented medical faculty to switch interests, "retrain themselves" where necessary, and solve the problems of health care by scientific investigation.