We were surely the first Harvard teaching hospital to have a program in primary care, to have active community associations and it was then, as well, that we developed programs in computer technology and their... its application to, to medical care. Warner Slack and Howard Bleich were pioneers in that area. Herb Sherman and Barney Reifen, two engineers from Lincoln Laboratory became interested in what we were doing and joined us, initially, temporarily and then decided to stay.
I found then and this will... I'll mention this further when I talk about the next chapter in my career, I found then, that the relationships that I had developed over the years with people in other parts of Harvard University, not only in the biological sciences and chemistry, but throughout the social sciences as well, really played an important role in both my insights and in my... and the, the ideas that they helped generate for what we might do and what might contribute to the effectiveness of a hospital and of a medical active... and of medical activities.
