Abstract
THE diminishing prestige of the medical profession in the public eye is a matter that must concern practicing physicians, medical educators and administrators, as well as the leaders of organized medicine. Yet it is not enough to explain this (as is customary) on the grounds that more and more people feel convinced that physicians are more interested in money than in practicing a profession, unjustified as that criticism is for the vast majority of physicians. Some other factor in medical practice, unrelated to the economics of medicine, has been lost in the great increase in specialization. Perhaps this was best . . .

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