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Primary care is both the oldest as well as the newest discipline of medicine. In developing nations, primary care is still a discipline without a name. It is regarded as an adjunct to hospital practice, a necessary evil to the good practice of hospital medicine. Like the man who discovers that what he has been writing all his life is prose, only in recent years has there been an awareness that primary care has always existed as a vital but neglected part of the health services.
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Rajakumar, M.K. (1984). Practising Primary Care in Developing Nations. In: Fabb, W., Fry, J. (eds) Principles of Practice Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6731-4_13
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