title: Disability medicine.
abstract: Rehabilitation/disability medicine has become big business in the USA, Europe and Scandinavia but has yet to establish firm footing as a specialty in the UK. Under the reforms of the Government's White Paper, however, time in hospital becomes money. The need for early re-integration and maintenance of patients in the community may well provide the cue for disability medicine to emerge as a specialty in its own right. But what is the nature of this specialty and who should do it?
authors: Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Turner-Stokes
authors: A O
authors: AO
authors: Frank
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D012046:Rehabilitation; D013038:Specialization; D006113:United Kingdom