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Obituary notices in the Journal of the American Medical Association routinely include physicians' achievements. These notices range in length according to an individual's accomplishments. The printer puts the notices in order by length, with longer ones preceding shorter ones. In 1942 a Brooklyn doctor analyzed thirty of the weekly lists and found the doctors with the longest notices died at an average age of 64.6 years. The last ten doctors on the list — those who had not gained prominence and thereby a longer obituary — lived on to 69.3 years. The price of success seemed to be about five years of a doctor's life.
Source: "50 and 100 Years Age," Scientific American (November 1992) 14
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Realizing the grave shortage of doctors at the time, many medical associations began to question these practices in the 1940s. Medical colleges denied the facts revealed by studies of the quota...|
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