Obsolete Residencies—Bullfeathers!

To the Editor.  —Editorial and philosophical comments have appeared of late in a great body, decrying inadequacies of medical care and physician training, and, in some cases, proposing corrective schemes. The shortage and maldistribution of physicians is not at all new, but we are at last sufficiently concerned to want to do something about the problem on a large scale. A beginning has been made by increasing the number of medical school places. Although graduate-training positions now available in this country are probably more than sufficient in number, many are in need of major revisions. Thus far, however, neither the government nor the teaching institutions have bothered to entice a greater proportion of young physicians to enter clinical medicine, particularly in areas of greatest need. In fact, the frustrations intrinsic to the practice of clinical medicine have increased as the health care administrators and the social psychologists, rather than clinically