RT Book, Section
A1 McKean, Sylvia C.
A1 Ross, John J.
A1 Dressler, Daniel D.
A1 Scheurer, Danielle B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1137583739
T1 Foreword
T2 Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071843133
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1137583739
RD 2024/04/23
AB I  well  remember  reading  the  landmark  article  by  Wachter  and  Goldman  entitled  "The  emerging  role  of  'hospitalists'  in  the  American  health  care  system,"  published  in  the  New  England  Journal  of  Medicine  in  1996.1  In  this  article,  the  authors  recognized  the  need  for  "a  new  breed  of  physicians…  specialists  in  inpatient  medicine"  and  coined  the  term  "hospitalist"  to  refer  to  this  new  type  of  physician  specialist.  Since  then,  the  specialty  of  hospital  medicine  has  become  an  increasingly  popular  and  successful  career  pathway,  and  has  expanded  beyond  its  roots  in  internal  medicine  to  other  disciplines,  such  as  pediatrics,  family  practice,  and  obstetrics.  The  Society  of  Hospital  Medicine  estimated  there  were  approximately  44,000  hospitalists  in  the  United  States  in  2014,  and  predicted  that  number  will  continue  to  grow.2