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What does the future hold for general medicine?

Joanna R Sutherland
Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): . || doi: 10.5694/mja11.10848
Published online: 5 September 2011

To the Editor: I endorse the viewpoint expressed by Jenkins and colleagues.1 They refer to the dearth of hospital medical generalists, at a time of increasing numbers of elderly patients with multiple comorbidities. Nowhere is this lack of appropriate clinical skill to match demand so apparent as in our regional centres.


  • Coffs Harbour Health Campus, Coffs Harbour, NSW.



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  • 1. Jenkins PF, Thompson CH, Macdonald AB. What does the future hold for general medicine? Med J Aust 2011; 195: 49-50. <MJA full text>

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