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    Generalist Medicine and the U.S. Health System

    By Stephen L. Isaacs

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    This comprehensive resource illuminates the past, present, and future of generalist medicine. Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy contains new contributions from preeminent authorities and a selection of groundbreaking articles and reports from the past forty years. Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy covers a broad range of topics that

    ·  Examines the current challenges of primary care and generalist medicine

    ·  Offers a chronological history of the growth of generalist medicine since the 1950s

    ·  Reviews the models of care on which generalist medicine is based

    ·  Analyzes the growth of three disciplines¾general internists, family physicians, and pediatricians

    ·  Looks at the supply and distribution of generalist physicians

    ·  Discusses the education and training of generalist physicians

    ·  Reports on the cost and quality of the care provided by generalist versus specialists

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateMar 29, 2004
    ISBN9780787976569
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