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Harry S. Jonas, MD

JAMA. 1987;258(24):3554-3555.

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Back in the 1950s when medical students chose obstetrics and gynecology as a specialty to pursue for residency, it was in part because it was considered a "happy" field of medicine. Patients were young and healthy; they approached parenthood happily, if naively; the outcome usually was joyful.

The vigor and stamina of young physicians entering obstetrics was at its peak. The appeal of entering a satisfying career of helping young couples establish their families, followed by a transition of easing more into gynecology as the patient and the physician grew older together, also held a special attraction.

What became of that idyllic if simplistic scenario?

The Council on Long Range Planning and Development of the American Medical Association has boldly undertaken the task of analyzing the changing environment of medicine so that physicians might get a better perspective on the future and meet the challenge of inevitable change by the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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American Medical Association Chicago

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