If you are referring to the health care industry (as I expect, given the thread title), the boom will continue, even intensify, due to demographic trends (the % of centenarians in the population is a vivid example). The industry will be held to ever higher standards in my opinion, and I feel optimistic each time I attend an annual IIE conference and notice the increasing number of book titles (at exhibitors' booths) devoted to improving the quality of health care and its delivery. Many of these titles are addressed at least as much to the practitioner as to the "professor type."
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E. Williams, PMC
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