Peabody

“Dr. Peabody, unlike Dr. Cabot, felt strongly that the general practitioner was more important today than ever. “Never,” he says, “was the public in need of wise, broadly trained advisers so much as it needs them today to guide them through the complicated maze of modern medicine.” He was opposed to the kind of group practice where many different specialists see the patient but no one doctor understands or is responsible for the whole patient. . . . On every important subject on which Dr. Peabody worked – typhoid, cardiac dyspnea, etc. – he wrote at least one paper especially to present the subject to the general practitioner” (Williams, 480).