TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe prevailing ill health and the practitioner
Y1  - 1929/03/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700380044017
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 986
EP  - 986
VL  - 92
IS  - 12
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700380044017
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700380044017
ER  -