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To the Editor: In the Sounding Board section of the May 19th issue of the Journal,^1,2 two sides of a well-rehearsed argument were presented. That the large departments of internal medicine lost control of some of the major organ specialties in the past couple of decades is not in doubt. Departments of neurologic and cardiovascular sciences in particular have almost completely separated in many universities. This trend may have worried the heads of departments of internal medicine for reasons of both principle and power. An outside observer will have noticed two simultaneous trends. Although the individual organ-based specialties have declared . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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