Stephen L. Isaacs & James R. Knickman 
Generalist Medicine and the U.S. Health System [PDF ebook] 

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
disciplines¾general 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

Om författaren

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.