Challenges of caring for hospital patients gives rise to 2 new medical specialties.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: April 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

ST. PAUL, Minn. _ When TV's Dr. Marcus Welby first became a household name in the late 1960s, family doctors still made house calls.

Today _ with Dr. Mark Greene hanging up his well-worn scrubs on TV's "ER" _ a growing number of family doctors are choosing not to make hospital rounds. Instead, they willingly hand over the care of their hospitalized patients to a new breed of highly skilled doctors called hospitalists and intensivists.

Unlike family doctors, who usually stop in once in the morning for a brief check of their patients, these specially trained doctors work ...

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