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J D Moore

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The inpatient's best friend. 'Hospitalists' specialize in managing care of the very ill.

Weston Chandler's business card reads: "Inpatient internal medicine specializing in the care of the hospitalized patient." In other words, he's a hospitalist, or a physician who cares for sick people in hospitals and nowhere else, and he's part of a new movement emerging in medicine. Modern Healthcare spent a day with Chandler to explore what hospitalists do and why their role may lead to more economical healthcare.

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Outlook 1997. Batten down the hatches. Execs need to prepare for scrutiny of deals by citizens, regulators and the media.

Our reporters make their prognostications for a dozen major segments of the healthcare industry in 1997. A common thread runs through them: as mergers and consolidations continue to sweet through the industry, communities and regulators are becoming increasingly concerned about whether the public interest is being served. And, our reporters say, scrutiny of such deals is going to get even more intense.

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Hospital staff cuts may be slowing.

It hardly seems possible, but the era of wholesale shedding of hospital labor could be drawing to a close, or at least a hiatus, according to a Deloitte & Touche/Modern Healthcare survey. But the good word seems to elude hospital employees, whose morale is still curving downward to record lows.

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