CURRENT views of the Cancer, Stroke and Heart Disease Program suggest that vital to the improvement of the health of the American public is closer communication between physicians. Discussion of ways by which the free flow of thoughts between physicians in university hospitals and those in community hospitals may be stimulated has included such complicated programs as bidirectional television, radio broadcasts, educational tapes and other paraphernalia of the automated age.There is no effective substitute for face-to-face dialogue; the interposition of mechanical technics between physicians diverts attention from the message to the procedure. For the teaching of clinical medicine, the . . .