Dr. Joseph Scherger's career in family medicine started in the infancy of the new specialty in the early 1970s and went through its early transformation in the information age in Family Medicine. A typical general practitioner in office practice would see 50-60 patients a day. In family medicine, more time was spent with patients with an expanded focus on the patient's biopsychosocial needs. Family physicians between 1970 and 2000 were trained to...