Abstract
In the beginning, the specialty of family practice had originated within the lifetimes of all its practitioners. Today family practice is in its fourth decade. Many of today’ s family physicians (FPs) were born following the pioneering efforts in the 1960s to begin the new specialty: family practice. Others were in grade school and high school while family physicians worked to attain credibility, hospital privileges, and curriculum time in medical schools. Some others have been on the sidelines, yet have benefitted from the specialty’ s success over the past 3-plus decades. Not all know the story of the family practice movement. For these reasons, I begin this book with an overview of the specialty’ s origin, evolution and current status.
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