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Volume 351:1268 September 16, 2004 Number 12
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The Future of Primary Care

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Edited by Jonathan Showstack, Arlyss Anderson Rothman, and Susan B. Hassmiller. 328 pp. San Francisco, Jossey–Bass, 2004. $50. ISBN 0-7879-7243-6.

This book contains 15 contributions that were prepared for a meeting that was held in October 2001 in Glen Cove, New York, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and attended by 45 invited persons. Revised versions of four of these papers were published in a supplement to the February 4, 2003, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The question, therefore, is: Was it worthwhile to publish a book about discussions that took place two and a half years earlier and have already partly been published? The answer, clearly, is yes. Primary care is in crisis, and this . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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