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Conclusions Physicians have historically organized care around patients, often traveling to meet them at the bedside. With easier means of transportation and the centralization of patients in hospitals, medical care became increasingly organized around physicians, with patients most commonly seeing them sequentially.6 That being said, diseases have no respect for disciplinary boundaries and outcomes and costs will likely be improved by accelerating the trend to reorganize around patient diseases (“service lines”). For disease processes that rely on multiple specialties, it is time that morbidity and mortality conferences, along with peer review, also become interdisciplinary. This approach should be embraced as a new standard of quality assurance.