This comprehensive resource illuminates the past, present, and future of generalist medicine. "Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy" contains new contributions from preeminent authorities and a selection of groundbreaking articles and reports from the past forty years. "Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy" covers a broad range of topics that- Examines the current challenges of primary care and generalist medicine
- Offers a chronological history of the growth of generalist medicine since the 1950s
- Reviews the models of care on which generalist medicine is based
- Analyzes the growth of three disciplines3/4general internists, family physicians, and pediatricians
- Looks at the supply and distribution of generalist physicians
- Discusses the education and training of generalist physicians
- Reports on the cost and quality of the care provided by generalist versus specialists