Abstract
IT is a great pleasure as well as a significant honor to present this, the second George Miner Mackenzie Memorial Lecture. To many of you associated with Cooperstown and the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, George Mackenzie was well known. His untimely death removed from the American scene a man of great vision. His knowledge and interest in problems concerned with the area of medical and social economics were matched by his contributions to patient care, teaching and research.Today, there is a ground swell of sentiment that academic departments must furnish leadership in developing ways and means for improving the . . .