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Book review
Hospitalist Neurology. Blue Books of Practical Neurology
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Hospitalist Neurology. Blue Books of Practical Neurology. Edited bymartin a samuels. (Pp 748, £70.00). Published by Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 1999. ISBN 0750697792.
It seems that there is a new specialty in North American neurology, hospitalist neurology. The drive to promote managed health care has apparently resulted in hospitals “filled to overflowing with more acutely ill patients requiring a pace of evaluation unprecedented anywhere in the world”. Enter the hospitalist neurologist. …