The Problem of Providing Health Services

SUMMARY Despite great scientific advances in medicine, serious problems in the delivery of health services exist today. The physician himself is already deeply involved in this problem. We need a resolution of how medi-cal care can best be distributed and what type physician would be most effective in this regard. Currently available analyses are not totally satis-factory. Granted that we know the type physician to produce, what is the most efficient way to pro-duce him? The burden on the medical schools of this country is great, much greater than just an in-crease in population. How do we increase the medical schools ' output of physicians? Can the medical school survive as an academic institutio