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To the Editor: Hurowitz (July 8 issue)¹ argues for a social policy for health whereby the medical care system focuses on responding to unavoidable diseases, and social problems are resolved through other means. We believe that the solutions he proposes needlessly handicap both physicians and patients. Physicians and other providers of health care and social services should work collaboratively. Physicians should assess the interaction of the social context with health and illness, for example, in caring for patients with hypertension or diabetes. In treating a person with diabetes, it is important to know about diet, the ability to afford appropriate . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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