hospitalist

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Recent Examples of hospitalist The study found that patients of hospitalists who placed in the top quartile of a professional exam from the American Board of Internal Medicine were nearly 8% less likely to die within a week than the patients of doctors with the lowest-quartile scores. Michael L. Millenson, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025 Her journey from hospitalist to a leader in lifestyle medicine is driven by a powerful belief that health is determined by the total quality of one's life. Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025 Her mother was told this by the hospitalist, also a doctor, but not the main doctor, not the one who makes the decisions. Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024 Five hospitalists from Washington Regional volunteer their time and are available on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, said Solomon Burchfield, program director at New Beginnings. Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 23 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hospitalist
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Noun
  • Viktoria Koskenoja, an emergency medicine physician, knocked on the door then greeted her warmly, pulling up a stool across from her.
    Kate Wells, NPR, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Salvador Plasencia, a former physician who supplied ketamine to Perry in the weeks leading up to his death was sentenced to serve 30 months — about two and a half years — in prison.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • So far, he's picked up and dropped off about ten people, taking them to anything from doctor's appointments to haircuts.
    Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In simpler language, doctors located the arteries feeding the prostate gland using dye injected into the blood, then partially blocked the blood flow to diminish the prostate.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The clinician, with officers present, spoke with the person through the apartment door for maybe 35 to 45 minutes.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The person opened the door armed with a sword and stabbed a Boston Police officer in the arm and knocked the clinician to the ground, according to police.
    Riley Rourke, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Eleven hours into this 15-hour shift, most of the attending’s best qualities — his pragmatic approach to medicine, his encouragement of young colleagues, his ability to roll with unexpected challenges — have curdled into huffy dismissiveness and defensive blind spots.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Trying to gossip about an attending with an attending is, indeed, bold, but that’s our Santos!
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • On the docs front, Netflix is continuing its pre-World Cup warm-up with another profile piece about a star player, this time the Argentina team’s iconic goalkeeper.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The filing comes after Mortensen filed for a protective order against Paul on Thursday, March 19, per court docs obtained by PEOPLE.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Michael Rose is an internist and pediatrician at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine investigating ways to improve HIV treatment and prevention.
    Michael Rose, STAT, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There are important cultural differences between an internist struggling to treat patients in a private-equity conglomerate and a John Deere machinist on strike because of layoffs.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026

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“Hospitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hospitalist. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.

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