Here is the link to the story about the robot-doctors.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4946229/The patients seem to like it, but I would throw a fit if I saw this hideous thing ambling into my hospital room.
As for the restrictions posed by the AMA on medical schools, just read this classic history of American medicine:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465079350/qid=1087547113/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-2448904-5261535?v=glance&s=books&n=507846Starr notes that since, since the AMA's creation of the Council of Medical Education a century ago, the U.S. population (75 million in 1900, 288 million in 2002) has increased in size by 284%, yet the number of medical schools has declined by 26% to 123.
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