The results are "disappointing, " said Emily Oken, a professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, who wrote an editorial to accompany the paper but wasn't involved in the study.

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Health care policy experts are increasingly recommending that medical school should be free for students that agree to forgo the specialties and become primary care physicians.

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In 2000, when a Harvard Medical School professor working at the World Health Organization developed a complicated formula to rate the quality and fairness of national health care systems around the world, the richest nation on earth ranked thirty-seventh.

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