Thankfully, general practice and hospital medicine are very different disciplines.

Part of me will be sorry to leave but it's tough staying in hospital medicine.

Then in she swept and in a generation revolutionised not just nursing but the practice of hospital medicine.

In so doing they exist in an uncomfortable limbo between the friendly pragmatism of primary care and the cold, cutting edge of hospital medicine.

These constituencies include academic hospitalists, clinicians-internists, family physicians, pediatricians, hospital medicine group leaders, researchers, clinical educators, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, hospital administrators, and pharmacists.