The Health Care Commission

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By directly seeking civic opinion concerning local health care needs, a county medical society developed an effective working relationship with many community groups. Citizens gained new understanding of medicine's wide interest in healthrelated projects. Physicians learned to work effectively with lay groups. Small group discussions developed a new approach for providing medical care to a significant segment of citizens past 65 and catalyzed a fresh look by labor at the increase in hospital costs. Approximately one third of the society's members became engaged actively in these activities. This program brought medicine off the defensive. Its effectiveness was enhanced by divorcing it completely from political activities.

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