Is embracing hospitalists the beginning of the end? “I believe that family physicians’ conscious withdrawal from the halls of the hospital sabotages the future of family medicine and the role of the family doctor within health care. Our absence renders us voiceless. We create the very extinction that we fear when we are missing from the bedside of our patients.”
(via Robert Centor)
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