Where do doctors hang out in hospitals?

[diogenesdan]

Hi,

I'd be grateful for some help as I'm writing an article for a student doctor magazine in the UK.

I'm trying to find out where doctors (of all stages) hang out in hospitals in the US. In the UK we have the doctor's mess - which has comfy chairs, tv, food, newspapers etc.

Is there anything similar?

Thanks for the help,

Dan.

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[Winged Scapula]

Yes.

Its called the physician's lounge, or in the case of residency, the call room.

The availability depends on the hospital. In my residency hospital, we had a call room but food was not provided. There was no corollary for the attending physicians. The attendings did not hang out in the resident's call room unless there was some major sporting event (as we had the only tv outside of patient rooms).

During fellowship (different hospital), there was a physician's lounge which the attendings could use which was stocked with food, chairs, tv, newspapers, etc. The residents had their own call room which did not have food.

All of the hospitals I work at now have a physician's lounge although the quality and amount of food available is variable.

 

[diogenesdan]

Thanks!

 

[radslooking]

do you mean where do we hang out together? well, if there is one place we hang out together i suppose that would be in the lounge. Doctors hide in every place they can in a hospital though. Some find a corner with a computer, some in deparment offices, others in a call room to watch tv/movie, some will hang out in a workout facility if its there, others go outside, some stay on the wards and chat with whomever, some go home if they can.

Me, i go to the bar. 🙂

 

[dragonfly99]

We generally didn't have much time to "hang out" when I was on medicine call during residency...very rare that we would have time to watch TV or something. There was an internal medicine residents' work room with some computers, books, and some other furniture to sit on, but it wasn't really a room for socializing. My hospital did have a residents' lounge with a TV and computers and couches, etc. but it was often empty, probably because people on call were mostly busy working, and also because it was in sort of an inconvenient place in the hospital.

There were tiny call rooms each with one cot/bed, but these were tiny bare rooms with a lamp, bed and that's all. They were for sleeping only...and I always felt lucky if I got a couple of hours to sleep!

 

[roja]

It varies by: specialty, rotation, hospital.

some departments had lounges. never saw anyone in the cafeteria. As and EMP resident we never hung out at the hospital. Now, I am in my office, working or away from the hospital