PEDIATRICS Vol. 54 No. 2 August 1974, pp. 249
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Are the Academicians to Blame?

Michael K. Posner M.D.1

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.