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QJM Advance Access published online on June 5, 2007
QJM, doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcm050
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Physicians. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland: now what?

G. Catto

From the General Medical Council, London, UK

Address correspondence to Professor G. Catto, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD. email: g.catto@abdn.ac.uk

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This inelegant question was stimulated by two related events. The first was the Association's centenary, celebrated in style at the Guy's Hospital Campus of King's College London in 2006; the second, West's elegant account of ‘one hundred years of an association of physicians’.1 Both made me reflect on the continuing fascination of medicine, its distinguished past and exciting future, and the role of the Association. My purpose is not to analyse the many factors contributing to recent changes in clinical practice—society's expectations, the increasing effectiveness, complexity and cost of modern . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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