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enterprise would go so far beyond that either Pritchett or the AMA Council
could have imagined. He did a prodigious job in familiarizing himself with
the literature on medical education and impressed … with his probing
intellect and quick grasp of what needed to be done. Here was no pliant,
hired hand going what he was told but a fiercely independent man who had
informed himself so well that from then on, it was Flexner … who became
almost overnight the most sought-after authority on matters affecting
medical schools.
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