Notes on the history of group practice: the tradition of the dispensary.
According to author Donald Madison, M.D., medical group practice is, "an original American phenomenon...its appearance coincided with specialization in medicine and much of the early growth was fed by the experiences of American physicians who served...during World War I." Madison answers the questions of how, where, when and why group practice developed as it did.
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Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.
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