THE medical profession has a habit of greeting successive social changes with apprehension and then gradually adjusting to the realities of a new environment. It is at this moment passing through such a crisis. Perhaps for this reason relatively little attention has been paid the report of the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke, which proposes sweeping changes in the structure of American medicine. The medical community must carefully analyze the report and determine where it fits between two extremes — one the herald of a new standard of medical care, and the other a program that could . . .
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William J. Curran (1965) studied this question.