The life of a hospitalist

[Magree]

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Hi:

What's it like being a hospitalist? Is it grueling? Do they make much? Are they just grunts of managed care? Thanx.

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[NuMD97]

From what I've seen they make about $20,000 to $30,000 more than an internist just out of residency. What seems to be the trend, is that the hospitalist picks up where the internist left off, when the latter admits a patient to a hospital. This frees up the internist to manage his clinical practice pretty much exclusively without having to run to the hospital to check on his patient there. He once again takes on his patient at the time of discharge from the hospital. At least that's the way I'm seeing it structured.