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Another Internist's Perspective

David C. Dale, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1981;141(8):982-983.

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For more than a decade, physicians, nurses, and health planners have written and argued about primary care. In this issue of the ARCHIVES (see p 979), Gerald T. Perkoff, MD, a well-known internist and experienced medical educator, presents his personal view that the best way to train generalists to meet the nation's health care needs is in family practice residency programs. Perkoff's article is essentially testimonial. It paints a glowingly positive picture of the potential for family practice residency programs to provide the key generalists for our health care system. He describes other efforts at primary care training as, at best, imitations of family practice. In his opinion, only family physicians are really interested in patient care. Surely there must be another, more reasonable, point of view.

After briefly reviewing the history of the family practice movement and the recent growth in the number of family practice residency programs, Perkoff . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Department of Medicine University of Washington Seattle, WA 98105

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