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100 Years Later - The Flexner Report Still Relevant

By Lawrence Diller, M.D. on July 12, 2010 in The Last Normal Child

100 years ago doctors had little credibility.  A education reformer's report remarkably reformed medical education and physicians' professionalism.  In the last thirty years this credibility has been eroded by financial ties between doctors and the drug companies.  Is it time for another Flexner Report. Read More

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Lawrence Diller, M.D.

Lawrence Diller, M.D., practices behavioral developmental pediatrics and is on the faculty at UCSF Medical School. His books included Running on Ritalin and The Last Normal Child.

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