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.
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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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