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This comprehensive resource illuminates the past, present, and future of generalist medicine. Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy contains new contributions from preeminent authorities and a selection of groundbreaking articles and reports from the past forty years. Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy covers a broad range of topics that * Examines the current challenges of primary care and generalist medicine * Offers a chronological history of the growth of generalist medicine since the 1950s * Reviews the models of care on which generalist medicine is based * Analyzes the growth of three disciplines general internists, family physicians, and pediatricians * Looks at the supply and distribution of generalist physicians * Discusses the education and training of generalist physicians * Reports on the cost and quality of the care provided by generalist versus specialists

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Stephen L. Isaacs is a partner in the consulting firm of Isaacs/Jellinek in San Francisco, California, and president of Health Policy Associates, also in San Francisco. He formerly was a professor in the Columbia University School of Public Health. James R. Knickman is vice president for research and evaluation at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey. He formerly was a professor of nonprofit administration in the Wagner School of New York University.

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