HealthsystemCIO.com June 14, 2024
As I’ve progressed through my career, I now realize I’m drawn to job titles that seem to make no sense. My first role out of medical training was as a hospitalist. Assuming ‘ist’ means to specialize in, I guess I specialized in hospitals? But that made no clinical sense as doctors are experts in the human body and hospital administration are experts in hospital operations, but a doctor who wants to do a little of both was an odd concept at the time.
Of course, we’ve come to learn when Dr. Robert Wachter coined the term ‘hospitalist’ in 1996, he was describing a substantial change in the American healthcare delivery landscape and the hospitalist movement, which start with a few...
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