Army Wants More Family Physicians

摘要

Confronted with operational inefficiencies, readiness shortfalls, increasing malpractice claims, and disenchantment from patients, new Surgeon General LTG. Quinn H. Becker embarked on a radically different program for the AMEDD. This paper describes the impact of his Army Medical Enhancement Program on the Army's wartime sustainment and peacetime health care. It describes the Army's effort to keep on the leading edge of medical system technology and cost containment. It documents the rationale and chronology of the plan to defend the program from impending budget cuts.