AAP News Vol. 13 No. 12 December 1997, p. 7
© 1997 American Academy of Pediatrics
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Managed care is no reason to dodge professionalism

Joseph R. Zanga M.D., FAAP1

1 President, American Academy of Pediatrics

Dear Colleagues:

Sometimes a profound statement in the Sunday newspapers is found not on page one, but rather, in the Sunday comics. One of the best of these, for those of us old enough to remember Pogo, is the now classic statement, "We have met the enemy, and he is us.

I think about that a lot as I go about meeting our members and talking to pediatricians and politicians and patients. Are we our worst enemy?