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The public’s health care paradigm is shifting

Medicine must swing with it

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Received from the National Fund for Medical Education and the Departments of Family Medicine and of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut.

Based on the Keynote Address to the Annula Meeting of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, April 26, 1987.

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Freymann, J.G. The public’s health care paradigm is shifting. J Gen Intern Med 4, 313–319 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02597404

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