title: Endangered individualism in medicine. With emphasis upon the ongoing need for competent primary care.
abstract: The essential nature of primary care and the attitudes of physicians who provide it--whether on a fee-for-service or corporate basis--are being severely undermined. Since these issues threaten American medicine and individualism, they demand stocktaking.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care