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ONE of the most perplexing problems in modern medicine is that of offering care to the thousands of people with chronic diseases. In the Mid-South the prevalence of some of these diseases are as follows (unpublished census statistics): heart conditions, 30 per 1000 population; high blood pressure, 36 per 1000 population; diabetes, 9.4 per 1000 population; peptic ulcer, 14.3 per 1000 population; arthritis, 69.8 per 1000 population; and chronic respiratory disease, 53.4 per 1000 population.In the days before the development of effective treatment of most chronic diseases it made little difference whether patients were seen regularly. However, modern drug . . .
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