Group Health Surveys in a Diagnostic Center

Abstract

THERE should be no conflict between the activities of individually practicing family physicians and those of highly organized medical centers with full-time staffs. Both have special spheres in which they can contribute most in the total picture of medical care. The medical center depends for the referral of patients upon physicians in private practice, to whose care they are returned after completion of diagnostic studies or special therapy. One area in which the medical center is particularly well adapted to carry out expeditiously a function that would be difficult in private practice is the performance of mass health surveys sponsored . . .