Question

The significant facts revealed by the Flexner report included that there was:

- A complete disregard for the public 's welfare without serious thought about the public's interests

- There weren't as many physicians compared to older countries like Germany

- Commercial schools produced a higher quality of physicians than non-commercial schools

- The "poor boy" argument held up under scrutiny

Answer 1

Option ( a) is correct. ( A complete disregard for the public's welface without serious thought about the public's interests.)

Explaination :-

The significant facts revealed by the Flexner reports are as follows:-

- There has been an enormous over production of uneducated and I'll trained medical practitioners. This has been in absolute disregard of the public welfare and without any serious thought of the interests of the public.

- Taking the United States as a whole, physicians are four or five times as numerous in proportion to population as in older countries like Germany.

- Existence of very large number of commercial schools lead to over production of ill trained men.

- The existance of many of these unnecessary and inaqequate medical schools has been defended by the argument that a poor medical school is justified in the interest of the poor boy. It is clear that the poor boy has no right to go into any profession for which he is not willing to obtain adequate preparation but the facts set forth in the report make it evident that argument is insincere and that the excuse which has hitherto been put forward in the name of the poor boy is in reality an argument in behalf of the poor medical school.