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Should Medical School Be Free?

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Air date: September 11, 2011

Host: Kathy Miller, MD

Healthcare Policy & Public Health Medical Edcuation
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Interview: Peter Bach, MD, attending physician
Director, Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center



Our next guest has an idea he believes could help both doctors as individuals and the healthcare system in general.

In a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times, Dr. Peter Bach of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center proposed that we should do away with tuition for medical school.

Today he explains his idea to Sound Medicine's Dr. Kathy Miller.

Dr. Peter Bach is an attending physician and director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.