ABSTRACT
There is still a great deal of misunderstanding concerning the significance of the new specialty, family medicine. A considerable body of literature (Committee on Education, AAFP, 1972; Sergent, 1967; Wilson, 1970) has been written on the subject since Haggerty pointed out in 1963 that the old general practice residencies failed precisely because of their failure “to demonstrate decisively what it is that the family physician can do better than the specialist.”
