The Physician and Organized Medicine

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Abstract
There is heavy pressure on today's physician to expand his one-to-one relation of healer to patient by participation in the larger issues that confront organized medicine. These issues include the adequacy of manpower, delivery systems and financing for health care, which were sharply dislocated from the previous equilibrium in the decade after 1960 by vast federal research funds, third-party financing and extensive health legislation coupled with rising influence by consumers. Expansion of the physician's societal role in addition to professional self-regulation can enhance public respect for organized medicine, leading to public insistence on maintained independence for our profession.

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