The most crucial part is to counter the tendencies in our society toward centralization and specialization. We should privilege versatile human resources, something which is the opposite of specialization. That is why people were much more versatile fifty years ago. Even the demands in our society are more for specialists than for generalists. Our approach should be to support in every way possible general practitioners, who are more useful in a rural setting.
On October 23rd, 2006. See this statement in context.