Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care

by Fitzhugh Mullan

Book Overview

The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the twentieth century progressed, the pattern of medical care in the United States changed dramatically. By the 1960s, the GP was almost extinct. The later part of the twentieth century, however, saw a rebirth of the idea of the GP in the form of primary care practitioners. In this engrossing collection of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520243315
• ISBN13: 9780520243316
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"