Featured blog post: The Frankenstein syndrome
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, December 8, 2009
I wrote last month about the difficulties that hospitalists experience in satisfying their patients. I was involved in a case recently that brought to mind some of the ways in which physicians cause their own difficulties. A middle-aged woman was transferred to our hospital from a smaller facility for evaluation of diarrhea and abdominal pain. Her problem began a month earlier, and she had been admitted to another hospital for evaluation. The workup was inconclusive, and she was discharged to a nursing home in the area with instructions to encourage eating, but she was unable to do so because of pain. She was transferred to a different hospital, and then sent to my hospital. I became involved when one of my hospitalists attempted to arrange discharge for her, but her husband balked and demanded another doctor. . .Read this blog post by Richard Rohr, MD, MMM, FACP, FHM on HospitalistLeadership.com.
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