title: The physician exodus from hospitals.
abstract: Physicians are spending increasingly less of their work week in the hospital. This is true of surgeons because they are performing more ambulatory surgery, often off the hospital premises, and for primary care physicians because they are delegating hospital care of their patients to others. What are the effects of this physician exodus on hospitals, patients, physicians, and medical education? Some of these consequences are explored, from disruptions in the continuity of care, to increase in practice productivity, to preparing undergraduates for the realities of medical practice.
authors.affiliation: Segal Company, New York, USA.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Royce
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000639:trends*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007325:Institutional Practice / Q000639:trends*; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D008486:Physician Executives; D010819:Physician's Role; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce