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To the Editor.—I was delighted with Dr Greenberg's¹ erudite and clever observations concerning the transition of medical care in the United States, but I became alarmed at his stumbling block, "One major ethical debate yet unresolved." He went on to explain that currently practicing physicians have not yet capitulated and become public health physicians, ie, community driven, not individual patient driven. Rather than "American Medicine Is on the Right Track," the article's title should have been "American Medicine Is on This Track." Accurate as his reporting is, it is not necessarily the right track, by any stretch.

Physicians are and should continue to be trained to be the partner of each individual patient, the patient's advocate in regaining health. Physicians are free to choose further training to become effective public health physicians, a long-standing and valued position, precisely for community, population-based medicine.

The people of the community, through the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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