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06 Feb 2020
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    Pivert K, et al. 2019 Nephrology Fellow Survey—Results and Insights. Washington, DC, ASN Alliance for Kidney Health, 2019.

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The First Phone Call

Joseph Mattana1 and James Gavin1
  • 1 Joseph Mattana is chair of the department of medicine at St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, CT, and Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine and a member of the Kidney News Editorial Board.. James Gavin is chief of nephrology at St. Vincent’s Medical Center and a member of Nephrology Associates, P.C.
Volume/Issue:
Volume 12: Issue 2
Publication Date:
01 Feb 2020
Page:
7
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The Nephrology Match yielded disappointing results again this year.

At the same time, the current state of medical practice as a whole continues to suffer numerous problems, which are well described and largely obvious. Among them is a progressive degree of compartmentalization: Outpatient physicians are abandoning the hospital as a practice site, and hospitalists are quantitatively dominating inpatient medical care, with abandonment of the outpatient setting. This has afforded many efficiencies and advantages, including apparently favorable impacts on hospital metrics. It has also allowed for a form of subspecialization, a supporting argument being that this may better facilitate mastery and
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