Featured blog post: R-E-S-P-E-C-T : This is what it means to me
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, September 21, 2009
Most hospitalists were not yet born when Aretha Franklin belted out, “R-E-S-P-E-C-T – Find out what it means to me.” Still, the song remains popular and captures quite well the drive for legitimacy in hospital medicine. Many hospitalists do not feel respected—not by specialists who want to dump patient care responsibilities on them, not by hospital administrators who deny them fair compensation and appropriate staffing, and not by patients wanting to know why their doctor is not seeing them. The secret of gaining respect is to show respect to others. . . Read more of the “Respect” post by Richard Rohr, MD, MMM, FACP, FHM, on HospitalistLeadership.com.
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