Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A physician, usually an internist, who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients.
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- noun A
hospitaller - noun US A
physician who specializes in the care ofhospital in-patients
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Examples
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Really, a hospitalist is a necessity for patient flow if nothing else.
What the Happy Hospitalist and Subprime Mortgages Have in Common 1 Dinosaur 2008
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A hospitalist is a physician who sees patients only while they are in the hospital.
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A hospitalist is a physician whose primary focus is caring for patients during their stay at a hospital.
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A hospitalist is a physician who sees patients only while they are in the hospital.
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A hospitalist is a physician whose primary focus is caring for patients during their stay at a hospital.
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The Doctor I told about earlier in the essay, sold out his soul to become a "hospitalist" to work for a corporation as a hospital doctor.
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The term "hospitalist" was coined in the 1990s to describe a new type of doctor who focuses on patients who are in the hospital.
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COLLINS: There are medical words like "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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The 'hospitalist' was signing orders to discharge the patient prematurely - could have cost her her life.
Dissident Voice 2009
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Kayali is a hospitalist, meaning she treats only patients in the hospital and doesn't have a private practice.
unknown title 2009
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Dr. Wachter was responsible for naming one of the jobs that exemplifies this shift: hospitalist, the physician who sees patients who are hospitalized and coordinates with the specialists caring for them.
How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession By 2019
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