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Eight years ago in the Journal, a colleague and I described a new breed of physician — the "hospitalist" — whose primary role was to care for hospitalized patients, returning them to the care of their regular physicians at hospital discharge.¹ Since that time, the number of hospitalists in the United States has grown from a few hundred to approximately 8000, with projected growth to 20,000 (about the number of cardiologists in this country). With hospitalists at most major U.S. teaching hospitals,² students and residents (in both internal medicine and, increasingly, pediatrics) now receive much of their inpatient training . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the University of California, San Francisco.

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