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 threedisciplines¿general 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