The growing field of hospital medicine

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Aug 17 2011

The Connecticut Mirror: More Physicians Turning To Hospital-Based Practice
Hospital medicine is a fast-growing field, attracting many of the young doctors who pursue general internal medicine. It evolved as pressures on primary care doctors mounted, making it harder to take time to see hospitalized patients, and as the care of hospitalized patients grew more complex. At many Connecticut hospitals, most medical inpatients — those not there for surgery, urology, psychiatric care or childbirth — are now cared for by hospitalists (Levin Becker, 8/15).

Related, earlier story from KHN: Hospitals Lure Doctors Away From Private Practice (Gold, 10/13/2010).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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