LETTER
Internal Medicine: Stop Reporting Problems and Start Solving Them
Jerome S. Reich
15 February 1993 | Volume 118 Issue 4 | Pages 319-320
TO THE EDITOR:
Regarding the National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower in Residency Training [1] and the editorial on activism and academic internal medicine [2], my response is to quote Bart Simpson: "Blah, blah, blah".
If we want more residents to select internal medicine and more primary community internists, which this country desperately needs, then let's see real change. Let's deal with the real problems and not have meetings and write reports and accomplish nothing.
1. Andersen RM, Lyttle CS, Kohrman CH, Levey GS, Clements MM. National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower: XIX. Trends in internal medicine residency training programs. Ann Intern Med. 1992; 117:243-50.
2. Glickman R, Bennett JC, Nolan J, Stobo J, Rubenstein A, Terwilliger J. Activism in academic internal medicine. Ann Intern Med. 1992; 117:259-60.
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