Reporting that only 2,700 physicians from Central Europe have entered the United States in the last seven years–about half the total of graduates of American medical schools in a single year– the National Committee for Resettlement of Foreign Physicians is seeking to solve the problem created by competition of refugee physicians through encouraging them to settle “in districts actually short of physicians.” The results of a year’s study by the committee of the problem of the emigre physician were reported to the Federation of State Medical Boards yesterday by Dr. Joseph H. Pratt of Boston and Dr. Irving Graef of New York.
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