PEDIATRICS Vol. 46 No. 3 September 1970, pp. 479
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Population Control Begins at Home

Peter S. Pinto M.D.1

1 Drummond Medical Center Ridgecrest, California 93555

It is commendable and it is right that so many fine pediatricians in the temples of learning and outside of them are concerning themselves in your pages with more efficient delivery of health care to greater numbers of children in the various strata of society; but like specialists of all kinds they see the world in terms of their specialty. A broad perspective on the problems of mankind and Americans should prompt any intelligent physician to an inevitable conclusion, and that is: there are just too many people, and medicine and public health which have caused the population explosion will never solve the problems of health care for that burgeoning population with more, more, and more of the same.