Definition of hospitalist
: a physician who specializes in treating hospitalized patients of other physicians in order to minimize the number of hospital visits by other physicians
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Recent Examples of hospitalist from the Web
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Our past experience with hospitalists has not been optimum.
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Our hospitalist was an incredibly smart, compassionate caring physician.
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The company, founded in 2007, uses teams of hospitalists and nurse practitioners to provide care.
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Also, the hospitalists are good doctors who are devoted to care.
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The hospitalist movement is a national phenomenon, certainly not something confined to Howard County.
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The parade of specialists, hospitalists, residents, and nurses treating him seem like Vegas palm readers, spouting theories and hunches that only lead to confusion and further despair.
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Dr. Karpoff, 31, is an attending hospitalist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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One night last fall, Victoria Rodriguez, a pediatric hospitalist at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, was paged from the emergency room for a consultation on a case.
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Did You Know?
Hospitalist refers to what is rapidly becoming a new specialty in medicine, perhaps due in part to the rise of organized health care. These days, the care that you receive during a hospital stay may be coordinated and monitored by a doctor who is not your regular doctor or the referring physician. The word hospitalist itself first appeared in print in 1996 and derives, of course, from "hospital," which in turn can be traced back to the Medieval Latin hospitale, meaning "hospice" or "guest house."
First Known Use of hospitalist
1996
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of hospitalist
: a physician who specializes in seeing and treating other physicians' hospitalized patients in order to minimize the number of hospital visits by the patients' regular physicians
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