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Need for primary care
1Department of Family Practice, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.
The Nebraska Medical Journal
|November 1, 1992
Abstract
Objective:
This paper is a renewed call for medical schools to address the societal need for more primary care physicians.
Data Sources:
Numerous studies from the literature are cited as background for this paper.
Data Synthesis:
The Author retraces the historical beginnings of the specialty of Family Practice and some of the more recent events which highlight the need for more primary care physicians.
Conclusions:
The author concludes that there is a societal need for more primary care physicians and that medical schools should respond to this need.