The Future of Primary Care

In Reply.— Dr Lobeck's and Dr Moscola's letters to the editor regarding my article on "The Future for Pediatric Education" are thoughtful and challenging. Dr Lobeck is disturbed because he finds pediatrics too discipline-specific and not paying sufficient attention to the larger issue of primary care in general. As a result, Dr Lobeck says, pediatrics has given up a leadership position in primary care that it held in the sixties and has turned the field over to general internal medicine and family practice.