Family doctors do not enjoy as much prestige (or get such high fees) as surgeons or other specialists. Thinking that an organization of their own might add to the professional luster of family doctors, the American Medical Association last year voted to organize the American Academy of General Practice.*
To get the A.A.G.P. started, the delegates picked Louisiana's tall (6 ft. 2 in.), Texas-born Dr. Jason Poland Sanders. Like most Texans, he has no inferiority complex. Says he: "I never feel I have to apologize to any specialist. A man may know brain surgery,...
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