RT Journal
A1 Samuels MA
T1 THe importance of collaboration among physicians
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD July 25
VO 171
IS 14
SP 1301
OP 1301
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.325
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.325
AB 
One of the major causes of this problem, not mentioned in the study, is the separate professional education of specialists and general physicians. Continuing education courses, often provided by specialty medical societies, perpetuate the niche approach to medicine that prevents physicians from speaking to each other about the same kinds of patients.