hospitalist

A doctor can choose a hospitalist position over private practice (or regulate his/her hours/# patients at their private practice).

It is a reason to quit being a hospitalist, but not something a person can blog.

If you’re recovering on the standard medical floor, they follow some idiotic process ordered by a hospitalist whom you’ll never see.

I am a hospitalist and we still occasionally use pagers, but they are not reliable like people assume.

The attending/hospitalist at my wife's hospital makes $420K/year + bonus (it's near Miami, FL).

Maybe once have I met a hospitalist whom I felt confident in and seemed to do his job competently.

I learned it when a family member wound up in the hospital and had a hospitalist assigned.

Some people just don't have personalities that can survive being a hospitalist.

I asked a hospitalist I know why no one thought to just have a peek.

So, my colleagues and I looked at whether the age of a hospitalist physician was tied to outcomes among elderly patients.

When a hospitalist quits medicine I am never surprised.

There is probably a hospitalist in charge of your care, but just like the nurses, the hospitalists rotate on shifts, and don't really coordinate with specialists so much as just trying to keep you alive.

"The job is boring" A hospitalist deals with more difficult cases than an internist in a office based practice.

But the job that he does is known as a "hospitalist" in this country.

Regarding the ICU doc disregarding the consult recommendations- the ICU described sounds like a “closed “ ICU where the intensivist makes the final decision, vs an “open” icu where a hospitalist will often be the one making the final decision regarding care.

The new name is Hospitalist, I think (actually, there's a push to have this as a distinct specialty, so experienced non-specialists have a better development path).