Rehm: You were Director of the Ohio ValleyRMP.

How did thatprogram, as it emerged, differ from the recommendations

of theDeBakey report?

I think most of the programs were really quitedifferent.

They operated on the assumption that theywere going to very

quickly bring new innovations in technologyand in health

services to more peripheral areas, or theywere going to make

major assaults upon the heart disease, cancer,and stroke

problem.

Many of them--in fact, I guess most of us--eventuallyfocused on continuing education, which ended

up being an activitythat, although present from the first, received

more emphasislater on.