The ramifications of specialty-dominated medicine.

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Perspective Health AffairsVol. 21, No. 1: The Business Of Health PERSPECTIVEThe Ramifications Of Specialty-Dominated MedicineKevin GrumbachPUBLISHED:January/February 2002No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.21.1.155AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextView PDFPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions View articleTOPICSCosts and spendingMarketsPhysiciansSystems of carePrivate health insuranceHealth outcomesComputed tomographyCost growthHealth disparitiesUninsured Loading Comments... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. DetailsExhibitsReferencesRelated Article MetricsCitations: Crossref 22 History Published online 1 January 2002 InformationCopyright 2002 by Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.PDF downloadCited byResource Use Among Diabetes Patients Who Mainly Visit Primary Care Physicians Versus Medical Specialists: a Retrospective Cohort Study1 April 2021 | Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 83Measuring inequality in physician distributions using spatially adjusted Gini coefficients19 January 2017 | International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Vol. 149Thoracic Surgery Practice SurveysThe Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 97, No. 1Methodology for the evaluation of vascular surgery manpower in FrancePublic Health, Vol. 127, No. 1Thoracic Surgery Workforce: Report of STS/AATS Thoracic Surgery Practice and Access Task Force—Snapshot 2010The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 93, No. 1Impact of Imaging on Negative Appendectomy Rate9 September 2011Thoracic Surgery Workforce: Report of STS/AATS Thoracic Surgery Practice and Access Task Force—Snapshot 2010The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol. 143, No. 1Seniors’ Perceptions Of Health Care Not Closely Associated With Physician SupplyDavid J. Nyweide, Denise L. Anthony, Chiang-Hua Chang, and David Goodman2 August 2017 | Health Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 2Providing Surgical Care to an Aging Population: Implications for the Surgical Workforce7 May 2011Impact of the Aging Population on the Demand for Colorectal ProceduresDiseases of the Colon & Rectum, Vol. 52, No. 4Utilization of Doctors and Emergency Rooms: Implications for Health Care ReformSSRN Electronic JournalThe Geographic Distribution of Physicians RevisitedHealth Services Research, Vol. 40, No. 6p1Where Do Graduating Pediatric Residents Seek Practice Positions?Ambulatory Pediatrics, Vol. 5, No. 4The Pediatrician Workforce: Current Status and Future Prospects1 July 2005 | Pediatrics, Vol. 116, No. 1Introduction: the origins and implications of a growing shortage of cardiologistsJournal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 44, No. 2New Steam from an Old Cauldron — The Physician-Supply DebateNew England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 350, No. 17Pediatric Training and Job Market Trends: Results From the American Academy of Pediatrics Third-Year Resident Survey, 1997–20021 October 2003 | Pediatrics, Vol. 112, No. 4The Aging Population and Its Impact on the Surgery WorkforceAnnals of Surgery, Vol. 238, No. 2Toil And Trouble? Growing The Physician SupplyDavid Blumenthal17 August 2017 | Health Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 4It’s The Prices, Stupid: Why The United States Is So Different From Other CountriesGerard F. Anderson, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Peter S. Hussey, and Varduhi Petrosyan17 August 2017 | Health Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 3Financing graduate medical education and limiting resident work hours: a political assessment11Dialogue from the Symposium on Challenges in Surgical Education: Competencies, Work Hours, Workforce, Assessment, and Adaptation, May 8–9, 2002, Louisville, KentuckyThe American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 184, No. 3Family Practice in the United StatesAcademic Medicine, Vol. 77, No. 8