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1. Interview with Dr. William Allen, September 1993.

2. Association of American Medical Colleges, Executive Council Meeting Minutes (Open Session), Feb. 6, 1965, p. 6.

3. Much of the information in this chapter, particularly that which is "anecdotal" comes form a series of structured conversations held in Columbia, Mo. in September 1993, arranged for the author by Dr. Arthur Rikli, long-time director of the Missouri Regional Medical Program. Participants included: Jim Watson, Associate Dir. MORMP; Fred Frazier, MORMP Information Officer; W.R. Kimel, Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering; Gayle Adams, Professor Emeritus, College of Engineering; Dr. Joye P. Nunn, School of Journalism; Dr. William C. Allen, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, UM School of Medicine; Dr. Gordon Brown, Chairman, Dept. of Health Service Management; Lloyd Harmon, past Director, American Heart Association of Missouri; and Dr. Wyeth Hamlin, internist and former Chairman, MORMP.

4. Interview with Dr. Allen.

5. Ibid.

6. George Wakerlin, "Missouri Regional Medical Program," Missouri Medicine, Feb. 1967, p. 91.

7. U.S. DHEW, Division of Regional Medical Programs, Directory of Regional Medical Programs, 1969.

8. Columbia conversations, Sept. 1993.

9. Interview with Dr. Allen.

10. Interview with Dr. Wilson conducted by Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D., July 24, 1991 at the National Library of Medicine., p. 11.

11. Ibid., p. 1.

12. Interview with Dr. Lindberg, Jan. 6, 1994

13. Arthur D Rikli, Fred V. Lucus, Fred Frazier, "The Automated Physicians Assistant," Clinical Engineering News, Feb. 1976. (See also interview with Dr. Rikli conducted by Mr. Storm Whaley, July 25, 1991).

14. "The Automated Physicians Assistant," op. cit.

15. "Ideas, Action, Progress: Cooperation in Health Care," Missouri Regional Medical Program, 1966-71.

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