Medical Group Practice in the United States

FOR many years, notably since the report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care1 in 1932, there has been considerable sporadic discussion of group practice, but critical factual analysis of the subject has been meager and limited. World War I apparently acted as a major stimulus for the formation of many medical groups during the immediate post-war years, and there is evidence that a significant expansion of group practice is also following World War II. The responses to the questionnaire submitted by the American Medical Association to medical officers in the armed forces in 1944 indicated that 52 . . .