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Show "Appealing" Figure Is Fast Disappearing "There is no more appealing professional pro-fessional 1'igu e in American life than the well-trained rural general gen-eral practitioner who keeps abreast cf advances in his profession and to whom patients are something more than a 'common nature' " sav the New York Times in discussing the recent gift to make possible i Boston, Mass. the establishment cf a medical cente- for the development develop-ment of "rural medicine" If the general p. actitioner is sr -i-ocaling the nation might e well d sorotJing for him: because the type is fast disappearing a d. under present conditions, will dis-arnrar dis-arnrar by the end of another gen- craticn. The family physician, s. lo. g the object cf veneration, finds the hard lesson of economics against himl as he sees the young specialists crowd into his practice and take frm him the cieam ci his fcuoiness. The backbone of the practice of medicine as we know it is the family fam-ily doctcr but the odds are against him.. The medicos who are vigorously vigor-ously opposing the spread of state medicine might find, upon reflection reflec-tion and study, that in permitting the family physician to pass away uiey have lost their mainstay against socialized, treatment of individuals. in-dividuals. If the rrndioal ass:cia-tio. ass:cia-tio. s would do son ( thing about making the field of the general practitioner more attractive financially finan-cially there would be less need to worry about state medicine. |