1 Acting Medical Director, The University of Chicago, Department of Pediatrics, Woodlawn Child Health Center, 950 East 61st Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Although I should hate to sound cynical or even "anti-intellectual," Dr. David G. Nathan's solutions to the primary medical care problem seem to carry a hidden agenda.1 Is the problem an absence of available persons to deal with primary care or a crowd of weary old bones obstructing his view of the bench? In no other area of investigation would a researcher suggest that a particularly vexing problem be tackled by those no longer productive in the areas of their choice.