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Hospitalists Are Increasingly Essential Across Specialties
Where would hospitals be without hospitalists? Today, hospitalists are so deeply integrated into many organizations that it might be hard to remember this role has only existed for a few decades. Robert Wachter, MD, and Lee Goldman, MD, coined the term “ …