Featured blog post: What is hospital medicine?
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, August 3, 2010
I was discussing upcoming plans for a grand rounds presentation to be titled, “What is Hospital Medicine?” when a colleague interjected, “You haven’t told us in your blog what that is.” He is correct, so here it is.
Hospital medicine differs from other medical specialties in that it is not concerned with an organ system, or a set of procedures, or an age group of patients. It is focused on a particular treatment setting, and, in that respect, is most similar to emergency medicine. The earliest definition of a hospital medicine practitioner offered by Wachter in 1996 was simply that of a physician who spends at least 25% of professional time on hospital inpatients. The Society of Hospital Medicine defines its members as those who focus on the general medical care of inpatients. Although both definitions encompass the bulk of daily work performed by hospitalists, they lead to the suggestion that anyone with a medical degree can come in off the street and be a hospitalist. . . Read more of this post by Richard Rohr, MD, MMM, FACP, FHM on www.MedicalStaffLeader.com.
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