Your opinion on HOSPITALISTS.

Specialties Med-Surg

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Do you love them or hate them? Do you think they are doing a better job than general practiotioners, when it comes to a hospitalized patient?

I happened to love our hospitalists and I feel that in most cases the care of the hospitalized patient is better and more consistent when it's managed by a hospitalist, than by a general practice doctor. (Of course, there are excepions.)

I know that the big argument against hospitalists is that they don't know the patient as well as their regular doctor, that has been seeing them for years, but I have observed, that oftentimes the general practice docs are kind of lost once their patient ends up in a hospital. Many times, when taking an order over the phone, did I have to suggest ever so gently and cautiously: "Doctor, would you like to order some Potassium, since you're ordering 1oo mg of Lasix IV for your patient, NS @ 120/hour and his K level is allready borderline...?" This never seems to happen with hospitalists. After all they do this hunderds of times a day...

Please share your knowlege, experiences and opinions...

Specializes in Neurosurgical, Orthopedic, Wound Care.

I work with an amazing group of hospitalists. Whenever I have an issue that arises with a patient they are quick to respond and will also check back to see if any intervention they ordered is working.

Often times when a primary care doc is the attending rather than a hospitalist I can sometimes wait hours for a response to a page for uncontrolled pain etc. Typically the hospitalist responds in minutes.

Specializes in ER, progressive care.
I work with an amazing group of hospitalists. Whenever I have an issue that arises with a patient they are quick to respond and will also check back to see if any intervention they ordered is working.

Often times when a primary care doc is the attending rather than a hospitalist I can sometimes wait hours for a response to a page for uncontrolled pain etc. Typically the hospitalist responds in minutes.

There are a couple of hospitalists who are notorious for taking forever to respond to pages; I once had to send our nursing supervisor to go look for them. The others, however, do respond pretty quickly.

Specializes in Med/Surg.

Love the hospitalists!!! Well all, except for one of em... but that's solely based on his personality ;) We have a lot of them, but we are also a huge hospital! So easy to get ahold of, we can just text page them online for quick orders we need and they 'magically' make the orders appear! :up:

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