Generalist Medicine and the U.S. Health System

This comprehensive resource illuminates the past, present, andfuture of generalist medicine. Generalist Medicine and U.S.Health Policy contains new contributions from preeminentauthorities and a selection of groundbreaking articles and reportsfrom the past forty years. Generalist Medicine and U.S. HealthPolicy covers a broad range of topics that · Examines the current challenges of primary care andgeneralist medicine · Offers a chronological history of the growth ofgeneralist medicine since the 1950s · Reviews the models of care on which generalistmedicine is based · Analyzes the growth of threedisciplines¾general internists, family physicians, andpediatricians · Looks at the supply and distribution of generalistphysicians · Discusses the education and training of generalistphysicians · Reports on the cost and quality of the careprovided by generalist versus specialists