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Volume 360:2789-2791 June 25, 2009 Number 26
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Growth in Care Provided by Hospitalists

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To the Editor: The analysis by Kuo et al. (March 12 issue)1 quantifies the unprecedented growth in care provided by hospitalists in recent years. It appears that hospitalists will soon care for the majority of U.S. inpatients, surpassing even the ambitious predictions we made 13 years ago.2 In their editorial, Hamel et al. agree, concluding that "hospitalists are here to stay."3

This is why I was surprised that the editorialists argue for an alternative model, the "rotating primary care physician" model.4 Although this model has the advantage of on-site presence, it suffers from a glaring liability: the primary care physician . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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