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Letters |21 October 2003

Hospitalist Care

Jonathan P. Whitney, MD

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TO THE EDITOR:
As a general response to the articles and editorial about hospitalists (1-3), my comment is, Let's move on. Hospitalist-style inpatient medicine is here to stay not because of an academic movement to improve inpatient medicine. Rather, its roots can be traced to the mundane issues of modern medical practice. An increasing number of office-based primary care physicians are transferring their hospital work to others. Therefore, physicians in the typical internal medicine group practice have had to devote a greater portion of their patient contact time to inpatient work. To meet the demands of this need for...
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Whitney JP. Hospitalist Care. Ann Intern Med. 2003;139:702–703. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-139-8-200310210-00019

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2003;139(8):702-703.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-139-8-200310210-00019

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