Medical interns spending less time with patients
Medical interns are spending less time with patients and more time at a computer since new rules limiting total work hours were instituted in 2011, according to a study published online April 18 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
In a rising trend that's flying well below the radar of most consumers, hospital systems throughout the US are buying up private medical practices and hiring their own physicians at a pace not seen since the heyday of managed care in the 1990s.