September 11, 2006

Remember the patients

In a letter to the editor, Nicholas Yeldo, a Wayne State University medical student, says the dispute between WSU and the Detroit Medical Center is a source of anxiety for himself and his peers. He challenges the opposing parties to remember that medicine is a "field dedicated to the service of the entire community." The people of Detroit - especially the impoverished and uninsured - are the ones paying the greatest price. It would be "selfish and embarrassing" to abandon them, he writes.

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