Featured blog post: A shout-out to primary care
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, February 10, 2009
Although some have predicted that the hospitalist movement trend will lead to the death of the primary care profession, PCPs will continue to have a vital and irreplaceable role to play, according to Jordan Grumet, MD, a PCP in Highland Park, IL and blogger of In My Humble Opinion. He said he supports the hospitalist movement as long as PCPs and hospitalists learn to work together, in an interview with HCPro, Inc. for our newsletter Hospitalist Leadership Adviser, supplementary newsletter to Medical Staff Briefing.
“[The hospitalist movement] has given residents who would have gone into primary care an outlet where they can still practice internal medicine, but they don’t have to worry about running a business,” said Grumet. As a result, fewer medical students and residents are choosing to become PCPs…Read more on our daily blog, HospitalistLeadership.com.
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