Preventive Medicine for Older People
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The experiment was initiated in the first instance for one year's trial period, in June 1958, with the approval of the County Council and the Ministry of Health. Care was taken, at the outset, to assure local general practitioners that there was no intention of usurping their own functions and that full reports would be supplied to them on any of their patients who were examined. No difficulty in this direction has been experienced. On the other hand "from the start they have co-operated in every possible way and have shown the
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