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I’ve just finished a month “on-service” as a teaching attending for a general medicine team here at GlassHospital. This means I served as the physician of record for every patient admitted to the team. You might find it interesting to know that patients admitted to the hospital’s general medicine service get assigned to their teams [...]
Something happened on my job that I’d only read about before. Working in the hospital this month, my team has been caring for Mr. M. He was here when we started on service at the beginning of the month, and unless his planned transfer to another facility goes through, he’ll be here when we sign [...]
I’m working in the hospital this month, managing a team that consists of a resident, an intern, and a sub-intern (a 4th year medical student on a job audition). I do these in-hospital rotations two to three times per year. I usually get pretty anxious beforehand, since the vastly different “rounding” schedule throws my normal [...]