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At my hospital there are always complaints about ortho dumping patients on medicine using reasons such as "pain control" or "uncontrolled diabetes" or even "medication management". That certainly pissed off a lot of medicine attendings/residents. Just out of curiosity, why can't ortho admit and manage their own patients? Is this how it's done in other hospitals? May be ortho guys are too busy in the OR to manage patients on the floor? I mean, other surgical services (especially general surgery) take pretty good care of their own patients' medical problems and only consult medicine for the most complicated issues.