The Health Care Team

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A SACRED cow of contemporary American life is the team concept. Institutional programs are evaluated by management teams, educational efforts are delivered by teaching teams, and the physician is a member, but only sometimes the leader, of the health care team. The use of this term in the current vogue may have begun during World War II when a "team" was assembled to build an atomic device. Experts from a diversity of fields were given specific assignments, and a hopeful timetable was prepared. Because no project director (team leader) could master all of the details, his function was mainly reportorial and his responsibility was accordingly much less. In other fields, the concept had little application. The group that flew an airplane or ran a ship was a crew, and the captain was in full command and equally responsible. Even in diplomatic negotiations wherein a multitude might face each other over

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