Tag Archive | hospitalists
Building a New Marcus Welby To Cut Costs
Marcus Welby, M.D. was a popular TV drama that ran from 1969 to 1976. The titular character was a symbol of a traditional physician archetype that was already fading from reality — the cradle-to-grave general practitioner that took care of patients in the clinic, in the hospital and at their homes. In the very first […]
Spiritual Benefits at the Bedside
A patient in the hospital receives a long line of visitors, from physicians to nurses to medical students to other staff members. The conversations with most of these personnel tends to be mostly business – answering clinical questions or following instructions, with maybe a little bit of small talk squeezed in between temperature measurements and […]
Hospitalists, Specialists, and a New Model of Care
In the Norman Rockwell past, patients had one doctor who followed them from home to clinic to hospital, managing their health care over a significant portion of their lives. That sort of doctor-patient relationship in today’s medical world seems about as outdated as a family gathered around the fireplace listening to the radio. Now, patients […]
