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Explaining internal medicine

Posted on October 10, 2008

Bravo Happy Hospitalist - The Doctor s Doctor: How To Be An Internist In Five MinutesHappy does a great job of explaining the complexity involved in internal medicine. When I read about proposals to combine family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics into one specialty, I am struck by the naivete of that proposal An agenda to dissolve general Internal Medicine as a unique specialty? Say it isn t so! Internal Medicine provides unique training in handling complexity. And many of our patients have significant complexity. We, internists, pride ourselves in solving diagnostic and ...

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