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The hospitalist is one of America's fastest-growing medical specialties. A physician-administrator, the hospitalist takes over where overburdened clinical doctors leave off; following patients through the system from entry to discharge — they are largely credited with reducing the length of hospital stays by anywhere from 17 to 30 percent, and reducing costs by 13 to 20 percent, according to studies in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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