1 Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine
While recognizing that the magnitude of the patient population who come to many of the ambulatory services in metropolitan centers makes personalized care difficult, it is clear that many individuals and institutions are actively exploring arrangements that attempt this.
The care of the person in health services, a practice championed by Blackfan, Schick, and Powers in the past and by Senn, Richmond, Solnit, Korsch, and others in the present, is a relatively new phenomenon in large ambulatory services.1