“…These academic experts serve to bridge the usual gaps between research and clinical practice, helping turn clinician curiosity and patient need into data and action. 15 Gotler takes the historian's approach to tracing the unfinished business of research in the development of family medicine. She points to factors that have shaped family medicine enquiry, including practitioners' reliance on information from other specialties, the desire for an independent academic presence, and the nonlaboratory character of our research questions and methods.…”