This is the first of four shows taped at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC as the debate on the Clintons' health-care package was entering a new

congressional year. Firing Line's previous look at health-care reform (#S987-#S990)

concentrated on the public policy and political aspects. This series, with an array of

thoughtful and cogent guests, concentrates on medical aspects--in this first show, the

relative paucity of general practitioners. Dr. Davis: "For me, being an internist meant a

variety of things, one of which was intellectual satisfaction in diagnosis, problem-solving,

which is one of the traditional hallmarks of internal medicine. But how I found that was

in medical school, being exposed to a group of people who practiced medicine." ... Dr.

Bowman on the possibility of retraining: "A neurosurgeon who has always been a

neurosurgeon I perceive as having more difficulty becoming a primary-care physician

than an infectious-disease specialist, for example."