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Hospitalists and ‘officists’

Preparing for the future of general internal medicine

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  1. Received from Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital, Portland, Maine

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Bryant, D.C. Hospitalists and ‘officists’. J GEN INTERN MED 14, 182–185 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.00310.x

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