The American family doctor of tomorrow will be more highly skilled than his predecessors, have more responsibilities, and boast a higher status. He will, that is, if medical educators and today's family doctors themselves have anything to say about it and in recent weeks they have been saying plenty.
The continuing talk reflects some embarrassing statistics. In 1931, no less than 84% of U.S. physicians called themselves general practitioners; today, their numbers have shrunk to 37% . Only 18% of this year's medical graduates expect to go into general practice....
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