By Tom Murphy and Elmer Daniels
As a researcher and a nurse in the Newark community, respectively, we spend every working day serving the health care needs of New Jersey residents, providing care and contributing to advances in medical research. Our life’s work is to foster advances in medicine, shaping the changing needs of our health care system.
We had hoped to welcome the governor’s UMDNJ Advisory Committee’s plan to merge UMDNJ and Rutgers University, since the stated goals were to advance New Jersey’s medical education, research and health care.
But for our patients, for the physician or nurse-in-training, for the research that prevents tomorrow’s diseases, we are not convinced the plan to reorganize the University of Medicine and Dentistry and Rutgers University gets it right.
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