Mediocrity only knows its own level, just shows how crappy some hospitalist medical care has been; from the article:
"A high bar on quality
-- In Southern California, HealthCare Partners—a physician-owned multispecialty group with more than 80 hospitalists serving more than 15 facilities—is facing saturation in what Tyler Jung, MD, the hospitalist program’s medical director, calls “the more desirable areas.”
-- Hospitals in Miami have also reached saturation, says Tomas Villanueva, DO, director of the 25-physician hospitalist group at Baptist Hospital. Because most physicians who grow up in Florida have to train elsewhere, many are eager to return after residency. But many now find hospital medicine opportunities, at least in Miami, few and far between.
According to Dr. Villanueva, he has been sending the CVs of promising candidates to other program directors for more than a year. But the quality bar is now so high that among the recruits that he occasionally interviews, he finds very few who he considers to be strong candidates.
“We find a lot of people who want to leave private practice or come out of residency for a job that pays well and has a good work/life balance,” Dr. Villanueva says. The problem? They’re not strong communicators, leaders or patient-safety advocates.
“They may roll their eyes when you mention patient satisfaction scores or the need to call primary care physicians post-discharge,” he explains. While at one time his hiring criteria consisted of finding “physicians with a pulse,” he admits, he and his team now insist on “the right people.”
Hopefully, the weeding out of the paycheck/lifestyle/Millennial-aged dregs will continue...