PEDIATRICS Vol. 9 No. 3 March 1952, pp. 356-360
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THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

Editors: PAUL A. HARPER, M.D..

THE first communication is by Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, formerly Dean of the Medical School and now Chancellor of the University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas; the second is from Dr. Herbert Miller, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas. Medicine in Kansas presents a wide range of practice with attendant problems: on the one hand there are large, sparsely settled rural areas where general practitioners carry the brunt of responsibility and where a shortage of physicians has sometimes developed; at the other extreme there is a large and well developed medical school and teaching center where a high degree of specialization is practiced. A major problem is to encourage young men to enter rural practice and then to bring them into some continuous working relationship with the medical center. The people of Kansas have been making strenuous and successful efforts in this direction by the utilization and development of their own resources. The authors, both of whom have been prominent in this endeavor, were requested to describe what this great midwestern state university is attempting to do in this field of medicine.