IT HAS been frequently said that adolescence is the neglected age group; perhaps it is more sound to say that it is physicians' training in the care of adolescents which has been given relatively little attention. That this has been so may be due to two facts: as the mortality rate from illness is lower in this age group than in any other, less urgency to develop training in their care was felt than in the case of little children and adults; and because the care of this age group has fallen between two specialties, pediatrics and internal medicine, it did not become an absorbing interest of either.