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...relayed through Vice President Nixon: "Give them my regards, Dick. They're the backbone of the profession." From a succession of cardiologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, urologists and other specialists, they got briefings on the latest in discoveries and techniques. From their newly installed president. Dr. John S. DeTar of Milan, Mich, (see below), they got a heartening report on their efforts to regain some of the prestige and responsibility pared away from the nation's 80,000 G.P.s-or "generalists" as they want to be called-by the tendency to medical specialization. "The renaissance of the generalists is imminent," said...
...sharp each morning in a white clapboard house in Milan, Mich., a slim, bald man bounces out of bed, pads into the bathroom, takes up an electric razor in each hand and mows off the night's growth of beard. To Generalist John Sherrod DeTar (rhymes with guitar), 54, new president of the A.A.G.P., this ambidextrous start of the day is just commonsense efficiency. "I have a lot of things to do and I want to save time to do them...
John DeTar's two-fisted approach has helped make him the family doctor's leading booster and a national figure in U.S. medicine. When he arrived in Milan (pop. 3,900) just out of internship at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he planned to return soon to the city and specialize in the growing field of pediatrics. But DeTar and his family (two sons, two daughters) found Milan pleasant and friendly, decided to stay...
Homework Upstairs. Today, after 25 years in Milan, Family Doctor DeTar runs a one-man show at a pace that would weaken many a younger physician. After wolfing his breakfast, he slips by nine into his elaborate ground-floor office (laboratory, three examination rooms, four secretaries) to welcome the first of the day's 35-odd office patients. After four or five house calls in his 1950 Oldsmobile sedan, DeTar often skips lunch (to his wife's despair), sees more office callers until 7:30. After a quiet, 45-minute dinner with his wife, he climbs the stairs...
Captain of the Team. John DeTar readily admits that he has some special advantages: no cutthroat competition (all three Milan G.P.s have more than enough cases), nearby medical centers open for study and assistance, a prosperous, dependable clientele (an average of only 2½% cannot pay their bills...