Abstract
The premise is presented that general practice needs not so much to be preserved as rebuilt. The need for first-line medical care continues. But the nature of the need has changed and will continue to change. The challenge is directed to the leadership of organized medicine to recognize and interpret the changes and meet the new needs with new and positive approaches. The beginning point must be in education. It is there that our patterns of practice as well as scientific knowledge are spelled out and imprinted upon those who will practice tomorrow's medicine. Failure to meet this challenge will do disservice to the profession as well as the public. To meet it adequately may do more to reserve the control of medical practice to the profession than all the time and substance, that have been thus far spent in legislative efforts.
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