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Contents
| Foreword | ix | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| 1. | Primary Care Roots | 1 |
| 2. | The New GPs: The Family Physician Comes of Age | 17 |
| EUGENE MCGREGOR, M.D.: A Legacy of General Practice | 20 | |
| CONNIE ADLER, M.D.: Living Rural Medicine | 29 | |
| NEIL CALMAN, M.D.: Urban Warrior | 38 | |
| 3. | Roots Rediscovered: The Internist and the Pediatrician as Generalists | 55 |
| BEACH CONGER, M.D.: Caretaker and Contrarian | 59 | |
| LINDA HEADRICK, M.D.: Seeking a Common Language in Primary Care | 74 | |
| SELMA DEITCH, M.D., M.P.H.: Children First | 83 | |
| 4. | The New Clinicians: Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants | 95 |
| THERESE HIDALGO, C.F.N.P.: Proud to Be a Nurse | 100 | |
| CARL TONEY, P.A.: Building a New Profession | 112 | |
| HOLLY GERLAUGH, F.N.P., P.A.-C.: A One-Woman Merger | 124 | |
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| 5. | The System Doctors: Managed Care and Primary Care | 135 |
| SAM HO, M.D.: Idealist, Innovator, Entrepreneur | 138 | |
| SALLYANN BOWMAN, M.D.: A Philadelphia Story | 149 | |
| GWEN WAGSTROM HALAAS, M.D., M.B.A.: Evidence-Based Doctoring | 165 | |
| 6. | The Quixote Factor: Generalists Doing Special Battle | 179 |
| WILLIAM KAPLA, M.D.: Life and Death in San Francisco | 180 | |
| BARBARA ROSS-LEE, D.O.: Ground Breaker | 193 | |
| JANELLE GOETCHEUS, M.D.: Doctor Succor | 207 | |
| 7. | Building a Better Future: The Case for Primary Care | 220 |
| Acknowledgments | 239 | |
| Notes | 243 | |
| Index | 247 |