Abstract

Increasingly the pool of indigent patients is drying up as more and more of them fall under the wings of federally supported medical care and third parry contracts. Medical educators are forced to explore means of incorporating diverse population groups into teaching material, whether private patients or those of other categories. This paper points up something of the dilemma facing medical schools, and should serve to prompt nonacademic physicians to aid when possible in the maintenance of what Osier termed “the great republic of medicine.”