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.
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.
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!
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! 
DalmatiaRN
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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.