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> I hate to say it, but hospitals need medical project managers. They are called GPs, or internal physicians. Dr Cox (Scrubs) is an example. The new name is Ho
by wisty 14y ago
> I hate to say it, but hospitals need medical project managers.
They are called GPs, or internal physicians. Dr Cox (Scrubs) is an example. The new name is Hospitalist, I think (actually, there's a push to have this as a distinct specialty, so experienced non-specialists have a better development path). If you didn't have a doctor competently managing your case, it wasn't because no-one was responsible, but the doctor who should have been managing the case wasn't.
- philwelch 14y agoMaybe once have I met a hospitalist whom I felt confident in and seemed to do his job competently.
- Spooky23 14y agoPhysicians are always at arm's length. Nurses rule the roost in the hospital -- within each unit, there is a senior RN who is really the person managing your care. The problem is, nowadays you often move from unit to unit -- the MRI machine or w/e is an enterprise resource. So when you move from Labor & Delivery to Post-Partum, or from the ER to Imaging, etc, there needs to be some sort of liason/hand-off process between two qualified individuals. Right now that's done via clipboard and a $9/hr orderly.