Steven Lipstein on Hospitals
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The Importance of Having a Hospitalist
Hospitalists are physicians who spend 100% of their time in the hospital. The advantage of having a hospitalist is he or she is a coordinating physician among of all the care you would receive while you're in thehospital. But as you know, episodes of care go beyond the hospital setting. And so a shortcoming of the hospitalist model is that there's a handoff involved between the primary care physician and the hospitalist.
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