Docs on the Bay: The Dream that Became America's Most Unlikely Medical School

The improbable story of one man’s ingenuity and perseverance in overcoming an entrenched medical system and an array of unbelievable obstacles to rescue America from a crisis in healthcare—and become the most prolific educator of physicians now working in the US.

In the 1970s, the US faced a long-brewing physician shortage crisis. The American medical school system was far underproducing new members of this critically needed profession, even in the time of the Vietnam War. Charlie Modica, a ...