Featured blog post: A hospitalist remembers Sept. 11
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, September 14, 2009
I had not planned to write about this, but seeing the 9/11 memorials brought back some memories.
At 8 a.m. on September 11, 2001 we convened a meeting of the department of medicine at Milford Hospital in Milford, CT. The major topic of discussion was whether hospitalists should have full membership and privileges in the department. I had been hired several years earlier as a “daytime house physician” (Bob Wachter had not yet told us what a hospitalist was), and we had recently recruited full-time physicians to replace moonlighting cardiology fellows from Yale who had provided night coverage for many years. We were ready to launch a full-service hospitalist program, but there were still many members of the private medical staff who saw this as a way for the hospital to diminish the physicians’ control. It was a more contentious meeting than usual, and I recall that the privileges were approved by a single vote. . . Read more of this “9/11: A remembrance” post by Richard Rohr, MD, MMM, FACP, FHM.
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