Abstract

IT is usually agreed that within a very few years, the general practitioner, as commonly defined, will have become an anachronism, an organism as defunct as the Great Auk. Various commissions and committees, citizens' and otherwise,1 2 3 4 5 are attempting to redefine, retrain, reinflate and refurbish the fading figure of the general practitioner into a personal family physician for primary comprehensive care, a general medical specialist6 or some similar euphemistically disguised reincarnation.It can be stated very simply that the need for these efforts does not exist. Admittedly, there are not enough physicians in the United States,7 there is a maldistribution of . . .

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