PEDIATRICS Vol. 47 No. 2 February 1971, pp. 471
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A Committee on Long-Range Planning for Pediatrics?

Jerome L. Schulman M.D.1

1 Division of Child Psychiatry, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

We are in an era of great sociological unrest and change. This has affected medicine considerably, but as yet in a miniscule fashion compared to what is in store in the relatively near future. Medicine has the opportunity of being the trail-blazer, the innovator or it can take the opposite tack and, when compelled, take a few reluctant steps at a time, trying to catch up with things fashioned by others.

The Academy of Pediatrics was founded as a progressive and forward looking group and dared to challenge tradition.