| Abstrakt: |
Six years ago, at the first banquet of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, held in Detroit, I commented on the fact that the industrial physicians, in devoting the major part of their time and attention to keeping employees well, were pointing the way to the general practitioner. I then ventured the prediction that, in the not distant future, the "family physician" would become, in large part, the "family health adviser," and would find his largest usefulness and derive a large part of his income in the field of preventive medicine.The time seems opportune for more extended discussion of this prediction. Recently at the conferences on medical education, which are held each winter in Chicago, there have been numerous expressions of opinion that, notwithstanding the remarkable and gratifying advance in medical education in this country in the last quarter century, decided, if not radical, changes are necessary |
