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San Antonio serves as a regional health care center, with more than 4,000 doctors, 100,000 medical professionals, and 32 private and public hospitals offer a variety of specialities to provide comprehensive care throughout the city.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio was established in 1974, and today, serves as a national leader in cutting-edge medical technology. Other facilities such as the new Center for the Intrepid, a world-class physical rehabilitation center at Brooke Army Medical Center, serves military personnel who have been catastrophically disabled in military operations; and the Cancer Therapy and Research Center is the site of the world’s largest concentration of Phase I clinical trials for cancer drugs. The Health Care and Bioscience industry is both large and diverse. It includes a wide variety of direct health care services as well as industries related to the provision of health and medical care.
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