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And, those authors are precisely correct. As proposed, the merger of the UCSF and Stanford medical centers will create an institution that includes $380 million in public assets, but the institution will be run by directors and executives who are entirely unaccountable to the public, who are under no legal requirement to serve the public interest -- and who will nonetheless have the power and the financial authority to dictate the level of support that public medical education and public health care will -- or will not -- receive in San Francisco.
