Research in general practice: law of inverse opportunity.

"Building Your Own Future: an Agenda for General Practice" is a strategy document currently being sent by the General Medical Services Committee to all general practitioners in Britain. It raises a series ofquestions about what general practice should be and how it should be organised andfunded, and the committee wants the issues debated as widely as possible. We have commissioned seven articles to contribute to that debate. We start this week with Denis Pereira Gray's argument for much more research in general practice-a subject only lightly addressed in "Building Your Own Future. "