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Page 8 The Battalion Wednesday, April 19,1989 ‘Boot camp’ hospital faces trouble recruiting interns NEW YORK (AP) — Kings County Hospital is the Parris Island of American medicine, a sometimes hellish boot camp that turns out sea soned professionals. It has 140 internists in training, more than any other U.S. institution, and some of New York’s poorest and sickest people. Recruiting a few good men and women, however, has been getting harder. Five years ago, 90 percent of the hospital’s medicine residents — staff doctors in training — were grad uates of American medical schools; today, less than half are. Even in the worst years, Kings County could count on getting 20 to 25 graduates of the medical school of the State University of New York, with which it is affiliated; last year not a single SUNY graduate applied, and only three of 60 first-year residents are from American schools. There are a many reasons why young doctors might shun a hospital like Kings County, but here’s the most obvious: Half the patients in the internal medicine service have AIDS. “That may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back,” says Dr. Richard Schwartz, the medi cal school’s provost. With more than 8,800 residents, New York City hospitals train almost 10 percent of the nation’s physicians — three times more than any other city. But at a time when the hospitals need more residents than ever, the quality and quantity of applicants is declining. In recent years fewer U.S. medical students have gone into less lucrative “primary care” specialities like inter nal medicine and pediatrics. New York seems to be having more trou ble attracting such residents than other cities and one thing that sets it apart from them is AIDS. It has a fourth of the nation’s cases, and in two years as many as 10,000 of its 25,000 general hospital beds could be filled by AIDS patients. Students “can be so overwhelmed with AIDS patients you don’t get the broad experience a resident wants,” says Caroline Reich of Emory Uni versity, chairman-elect of student representatives to the American As sociation of Medical Colleges. In addition, “most people who are looking to go into private practice don’t think they’ll be seeing mam AIDS patients and don’t feel diet need an intensive exposure to AIDS during their residency,” says Cindj Osman of Brown University, presi dent of the American Medical Stu dent Association. Man makes bomb threat, forces plane to return to Miami MIAMI (AP) — A passenger who The A-300 Airbus carrying 205 made a bomb threat on an American passengers and a crew of nine Airlines flight to Puerto Rico was de- landed safely in Miami at about 2:50 tained Tuesday after the jetliner re- p.m. ESI, and the passengers used turned safely to Miami International chutes to quickly evacuate on a re- Airport, authorities said. mote section of the field, officials saic ‘- Miami. “We have the Metro-Dade bomb squad going through the cam A man is in custody who was hold right now." making several threats on board the plane and forced it to turn around,” There was no immediate indica- said Paul Miller, FBI spokesman in tion of whether a bomb was found. 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TheBattalio SP Wednesday Ags Neum; By Jerry Bolz ASSISTANT SP It was the < asked for — anc After taking from Texas S ranked Texas pulled out one Aggit • Score: A&M header with St' scores of 7-5 anc • Record: 46-2. • Ranking: First • Next game: t Worth for a thi Texas Christian day at 3 p.m. ft Saturday beginr towin a double! F. Austin Tuesd The victory p 44-2 on the yea to 9-33. The Aggies c; flat after the against Texas a took advantage drive, jumping both games. But the Agg: vage the first g from a ninth-ir the second game Left fielder J in second base with no outs in t the nightcap. "I just told m drive the first pi game,” Neuman confidence we c who’s at the plan A&M Head C said winning in easier since the i fore. “It’s always a ] from behind bo their memory b guys responded Freshman pin (2-0) got the wi the nightcap aft lief in the sixtl struck out the f faced and Finishi in four innings, hit and no runs. 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