United States Department of Health and Human Services v. Robert Porter Smith and Julie Rose Smith

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• holding that the debtor/physician’s financial obligations under the Physician Shortage Area Scholarship Program were non-dischargeable student loans based upon the definition above, even though repayment was contingent on the debtor’s failure to practice in a physician shortage area
• allowing a doctor to go into bankruptcy and avoid liability on a student loan because payment was contingent on doctor’s failure to serve in limited physician area subverts congressional purpose

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