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The NIH has a medical center that is filled with specialists that patients come to from all over the world; in addition it provides opportunities for participating in clinical trials that are not widely available in other geographic areas. Furthermore at its Bethesda campus NIH hosts some of the best academic research in the world (in addition to funding it at other places like UCLA). Also the WHC is both a teaching and research hospital, as is Childrens. And as pointed out, Hopkins is 35 miles away.

For an individual in need of unusual specialty care there is a lot in this area, along with plenty of opportunity for world ranked research.

However for the nations' health what we need are systems that support primary prevention. For that a better federal transportation bill and better educated state/local DOTs and planning commissions, along with reform of USDA farm subsidies will be more meaningful than a local medical school that's ranked #12 instead of #45...

by Tina on Jul 23, 2012 3:55 pm • link • report

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