The Failure of Health Centres.

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These are exciting times in which to live, but then it has probably ever seemed so to men alert to the changes going on all around. Habits alter with almost breathtaking rapidity. What is accepted as au fait today is outmoded tomorrow; what is 'U' this week is 'non U ' next week. Medicine is being transformed. Paediatricians, deprived of their young patients with pneumonia and acute rheumatism, turn their attention to intra-uterine paediatrics; the sanatoria empty of tuberculous patients are available for new uses; the infectious diseases hospitals cleared of diphtheria (and soon, we hope, of poliomyelitis patients) stand half empty. General practice too is searching for a new modus vivendi. Family doctors cannot continue in the established traditional methods, and this for three reasons. The introduction of antibiotics, insulin, heparin and other potent remedies has done much to increase the doctor's ability to cure radically or control some of the greatest scourges of humanity. It ha

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