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Starting a Conversation about the Future of Internal Medicine
- The Editors
Health care in the United States is like a rudderless vessel drifting close to the shoals of uncontrollable cost, inconsistent quality, and patient demand. Internal medicine is a passenger on this vessel, but it must also cope with dissatisfaction within its ranks, mostly from general internists, and reduced attractiveness to medical students who are choosing a career path. The problems that have brought general internists to this point are immensely complicated and important. They are our problems, and their solutions require our best effort.
Asserting a role in solving these vast problems, Annals has published articles intended …
