Can the Private Sector Lead the Evolution of Medicine in the 1980's?
- 3 July 1980
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 303 (1) , 57-59
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198007033030133
Abstract
Until the late 1970's, there was no process to enhance the unification of the private sector on major national issues affecting medicine and health care. On many issues, the private sector was divided. In the absence of leadership in the private sector, the federal government stepped into the vacuum without benefit of a long memory or a long-range plan; political expediency became an added ingredient.Efforts to create some consensus in the private sector in medicine led to the formation in 1971–1972 of the Coordinating Council on Medical Education and its subset of new liaison committees. However, the "turf" problems . . .Keywords
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