Medscape May 11, 2021
While the COVID-19 pandemic has generated anxiety and confusion in medicine, one thing should bring a sense of clarity to hospitalists: They’re needed now more than ever.
Larry Wellikson, MD, MHM, the former, longtime CEO of the Society of Hospital Medicine, in a May 6 keynote speech at SHM Converge, the annual conference of the Society of Hospital Medicine, said the COVID-19 era has underscored the singular importance of the specialty.
“I think one thing that this recent pandemic has emphasized is just how important and vital hospitalists are to the United States’ health care system,” Wellikson said. “The response to the acute care needs in this pandemic would have been impossible in the health care system that existed before...
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