most common hematologist referrals

[Eilat87]

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Hello everyone, what are the most common cases that need require a referral to a hematologist? also, briefly, what does a hematologists' day look like? thanks in advance!

 

[gutonc]

Hello everyone, what are the most common cases that need require a referral to a hematologist? also, briefly, what does a hematologists' day look like? thanks in advance!

Are you talking about a generalist, community-based Hem/Onc doc? An academic benign hematologist? A BMT/heme malignancy specialist? The answers are quite different.

 

[FlowRate]

I've been shadowing a Private Practice Heme/Onc. She spends 1 day or so a week doing rounds and the rest of her time in the office seeing patients, reading test results, calling other doctors, reading journals, etc. Usually done by 5. To be honest, it's a rather "boring" schedule, although I couldn't call her job "boring."

 

[howelljolly]

At the community teaching hospital where I rotated...

1.thrombocytopenia
2.pancytopenia
3.something where the internist has something in mind such as MDS, but the counts arent too crazy.

 

[lanziii]

thrombocytopenia is probably the most common reason for inpt hem consult.

 

[gutonc]

thrombocytopenia is probably the most common reason for inpt hem consult.

And it almost always comes from the liver transplant team on a pre-transplant ESLD patient.