Discuss the view that government is more effective in the allocation of scarce resources than the free market.

The Medical School of the University of California at Davis opened in 1968 with an entering class of 50 students. In 1971, the size of the entering class was increased to 100 students, a level at which it remains. No admissions program for disadvantaged or minority students existed when the school opened, and the first class contained three Asians but no blacks, no Mexican-Americans, and no American Indians. Over the next two years, the faculty devised a special admissions program to increase the representation of "disadvantaged" students in each Medical School class.^[1]The special program consisted of

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additional questions

Question 1

How sensitive is the increase in serum lipase levels in the case of acute

pancreatitis?

Question 2

What is the association between chronic pancreatitis and peripheral

vascular disease (PVD)?

Question 3

Please, can you explain to us the mechanism of pancreatitis in

hypertriglyceridaemias?

Question 4

Is there any role for chemotherapy in carcinoma of the pancreas?

Question 5

1. How should portal hypertension be managed in patients with

bronchial asthma, where beta-blockers are contraindicated?

2. How should diuretics for these patients with hypertension be added?

Question 6

Is cirrhosis a prerequisite for the development of hepatocellular

carcinoma (HCC) in hepatitis B (HBV)?

Question 7

Should therapy with interferons in the treatment of hepatitis C (HCV)

and hepatitis B (HBV) commence when the polymerase chain reaction

(PCR) is positive, irrespective of serum glutamyl pyruvate transaminase

(SGPT) levels?

Question 8

What is the degree of sensitivity of the CA19-9 as a marker of cancer in

the head of the pancreas?51607

Question 9

What are the benefits and drawbacks of silymarin in the treatment of

liver cell failure? (This treatment is widely used in my country.)

Question 10

If using zinc in the treatment of Wilson's disease, should the salt used to

treat the disease be zinc acetate, or is any zinc-containing salt such as zinc

sulphate sufficient?