Hospitalist Surge

By symtym | 11.9.05

Hospitalists’ ranks surge across region

The specialty, which joined the medical landscape in the mid-1990s, refers to physicians who care for patients from the time they are admitted to a medical center to the time they are discharged. They maintain no practice outside a hospital’s walls.

(tags: physicians hospitals)

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beajerry 11/10/2005 01:51 PM 1 point
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Hospitalists are handy! But they also put another nail in personalized care's coffin. Patients are now taken care of by an organization instead of a doctor.

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