RT Journal
T1 THe prevailing ill health and the practitioner
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD March 23
VO 92
IS 12
SP 986
OP 986
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700380044017
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700380044017
AB The answer to the question of how the "average" physician should be trained and what he may reasonably be expected to know to meet the needs of the public may be sought, in part at least, in the records of actual practice. What are the actual demands that are made by persons for medical attention? This is an inquiry to which the Commission on Medical Education, under the chairmanship of President Lowell of Harvard University and sponsored in part by the American Medical Association, has devoted earnest consideration. Its preliminary report, issued in 1927,1 outlines the experience of a large group of recent graduates in medical practice in communities of 50,000 or less in twenty-four states and two provinces. A study of their activities reveals that most of the illnesses are not difficult of diagnosis or treatment, and probably 90 per cent can be cared for by a competently