Hospitalists write medication orders, take calls for “housekeeping” issues and do the discharge paperwork. With us, quality of care and patient satisfaction generally improve, and the surgeon isn’t being called at 2 a.m. with requests for Tylenol or laxatives. What’s not to like?
How did we get into
this mess? By failing to set boundaries to limit the mission creep
that moved us away from the original notion of hospitalists as
clinicians within the original scope of their training, IMHO. Our
professional organization didn’t help.
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