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Article: Boston couple donates $10 million to aid Pa. medical school students
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 14, 1993
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Hoping to free young doctors from huge medical school debts
that may cause them to forgo research, teaching or family medicine in
favor of high-profit specialties, a Boston doctor and his wife have
donated $10 million to eliminate tuition for some students at the
University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
The extraordinary gift, to be announced today, has made other
medical school officials gasp in surprise and envy. But they also
say they doubt that such private generosity can be duplicated at many
institutions.
"I hope it's contagious," said Dr. Daniel H. Johnson Jr., speaker
of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association. "This