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Ny Hospitals Not Training Drs.

NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports on a experimental plan by the federal government to pay New York medical schools NOT to train new doctors. The government says the nation already faces a growing doctor surplus and that medical schools must stop training so many doctors now -- and it's willing to pay them hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.

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