This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (7)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

What It Is and What It Is Not

George E. Miller, MD

JAMA. 1987;258(10):1352-1354.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

IT SEEMS only fair to begin with a confession: the preparation of this article has been more difficult than of any I can recall with a memory that is assuredly less precise than it once was, but still seems sufficiently intact to be reasonably dependable. While struggling at my desk to find words that might be useful, I found myself leafing through earlier correspondence with Dr Thomas Zimmerman and discovered in a letter that I received from him five years ago the probable source of this present difficulty. He was commenting on a paper I had delivered to the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, one that ended with an implied promise that it represented "a final contribution to the debate in which I have taken part for nearly twenty years." Dr Zimmerman replied that he was appointing himself "a committee of one to be sure that this is not your last public . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Read in part before the First International Conference on Continuing Medical Education, Rancho Mirage, Calif, Nov 30, 1986.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323 (Dr Miller).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?