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Max D. Bennett, PhD
University of New Mexico Albuquerque

JAMA. 1996;275(20):1544-1545.

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To the Editor.

—The definitions for and the methods used to count generalist and primary care physicians in a number of studies are fraught with problems.^1-4 For example, Dr Grumbach and colleagues⁴ have suggested that the supply of generalist physicians was substantially less than the number usually reported from the American Medical Association's Physician Masterfile, but assumed that a physician with a subspecialty education, such as a cardiologist who devotes 60% of his or her time to general internal medicine, should not be included in the supply of generalist physicians.

To study this issue in my state, in April 1995, a survey was sent to physicians with an active license to practice medicine in New Mexico as of March 15,1995, and 80% responded. Of the 1949 active nonfederal physicians living in New Mexico who responded, 793 reported a first or second specialty as 1 of the generalist specialties: . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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