hospitalist
n.
1) Someone who didn't want to be a primary care doctor but found out a little too late they weren't cut out to specialize in anything, not even Family Medicine, and now complains to anyone naive enough to listen about every single patient admission like the world is ending.
2) Someone with such an inferiority complex, she or he feels the constant need to demonstrate his or her knowledge by reciting arcane questions at medical students and residents about things read on UpToDate that same morning just prior to the endless ritual known as rounds.
1) Someone who didn't want to be a primary care doctor but found out a little too late they weren't cut out to specialize in anything, not even Family Medicine, and now complains to anyone naive enough to listen about every single patient admission like the world is ending.
2) Someone with such an inferiority complex, she or he feels the constant need to demonstrate his or her knowledge by reciting arcane questions at medical students and residents about things read on UpToDate that same morning just prior to the endless ritual known as rounds.
"So I called the hospitalist to admit my chest pain patient who required CPR and defibrillation in the field, but the hospitalist wants me to discharge her home now because her HEART score is only 3 and she has a pulse."
hospitalist by music2doc April 29, 2019
