The Importance of Experience in Internal Medicine

Anupam Jenna: Most patients like the idea of a gray-haired physician. He says there hasn't been much high-quality evidence to assess that issue. Hospitalists are internal medicine doctors who focus on hospital-based care, he says. Patients more or less end up getting quasi-randomized to physicians with different characteristics, she says. "We can basically see what happens if a patient happens to be treated by a doctor who is 20 years out of residency"