PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Varo Kirthi AU - R Mark Temple AU - Linda J Patterson TI - Inpatient care: should the general physician now take charge? AID - 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-4-316 DP - 2012 Aug 01 TA - Clinical Medicine PG - 316--319 VI - 12 IP - 4 4099 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/12/4/316.short 4100 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/12/4/316.full SO - Clin Med2012 Aug 01; 12 AB - In an ageing population, patients are living longer with one or more chronic disease, and with acute illnesses increasingly extending outside the boundaries of a single medical specialty. Therefore, is it time for the general physician to take charge?