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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.5.7 Similarly, the health maintenance organization has increasingly become the “distribution channel” for hospital, where, only ten years ago, the hospital distribution channel was the physician. Increasingly, hospital are therefore working with HMOs to reach both physician and patient. So far, we can only speculate on the impact the Internet will have on distribution. But it will have impact. One example of what is already happening, and happening fast, is the American automobile market. Hence the automobile industry faces the task of making the Internet its distribution channel——General Motors is known already to work on this. But does that mean abandoning the traditional automobile dealer? ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century · Chapter3》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)