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JAMA. 1968;203(13):1133.

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A recent editorial in THE JOURNAL has commented on the fading element of personal attention in medical care.¹ Closely associated with personal attention, indeed an integral part of it, is continuity of care. A place where these principles have been losing ground for some time is a place where, above all others, this should not happen. It is the teaching hospital, avowedly devoted to showing students and resident staff by precept and example the way they should go. Reference is made not to the hospital for the indigent, the city, county, or even VA hospital with a medical school affiliation in which the patient-to-doctor bond is rarely strong and has never been long preserved anyway, but to the prevailing form of the university hospital manned by a part-time as well as a smaller full-time staff and catering to many middle income patients who, though serving willingly as subjects for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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