Canada's Health Care System

Abstract

Canada and the United States, neighboring countries whose health care systems have gone their separate ways over the past decade, still share with other Western industrialized nations a major public-policy task: deciding how many physicians are enough. Most Western nations are training more physicians than they seem prepared to accommodate, but because of a commitment to educational opportunity and a belief in the medical model, they are finding it exceedingly difficult to pare their production capacity. Caught in the middle of this issue are medical schools, teaching hospitals, and their trainees, who must cope with an uncertain future.Canada and . . .