PEDIATRICS Vol. 57 No. 4 April 1976, pp. 577
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Is the Academy Demolishing Private Practice?

Arthur L. Klein M.D.1

1 Palos Verdes Peninsula Medical Center, 927 South Deep Valley Drive, Rolling Hills Estates, California 90274

As a pediatrician in private practice, I found the commentary on family intervention by Kempe1 in the November issue somewhat disturbing. It appears that Dr. Kempe does not feel that private pediatricians are able to adequately assess the psychosocial development of their patients and wants to interpose a nonprofessional "health visitor" from the state to do it for them. Most private practitioners see their newborns and mothers shortly after delivery and begin the continuing care of the child at that point.