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Delivery of Health Care

Harry Marchmont-Robinson, MD

JAMA. 1968;204(3):247-248.

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American medicine's greatest challenge today is the t delivery of competent, economical health care to the individual.

In the past, medicine has concerned itself, as it should, with standards of education, research, ethics, and the advancement of the science. These policies have been effective in enabling American medicine to reach an historic pinnacle of competence and capability. This was primarily accomplished by an internal surveillance, which had as its goal the pursuit of excellence.

Now, however, the profession is being subjected to an external surveillance which looks to the continuation of technical excellence, but which also wants the benefits available to each and every individual, regardless of race, color, creed, or financial position. Medicine has concerned itself primarily with the improvement of the product. Now, the public, for whom the product was designed, wants it distributed widely and economically. This is a new emphasis in American medicine. It has always . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Read before the Section on General Practice at the 116th annual convention of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, NJ, June 20, 1967.

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