Comments on: Medicine: The lowest rung in the hospital http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/medicine-lowest-rung-in-hospital.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Val http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/medicine-lowest-rung-in-hospital.html/comment-page-1#comment-73971 Val Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/medicine-the-lowest-rung-in-the-hospital.html#comment-73971 And in a bizarre twist on the Internal Medicine dumping ground syndrome, I describe a surgical patient who was boarded on a medicine floor - only to terrorize the medical patients and staff nearby! So even if a patient is not actually ADMITTED to the IM service, you can still be at risk.<br/><br/>http://www.revolutionhealth.com/blogs/valjonesmd/the-case-of-a-predato-3629 And in a bizarre twist on the Internal Medicine dumping ground syndrome, I describe a surgical patient who was boarded on a medicine floor – only to terrorize the medical patients and staff nearby! So even if a patient is not actually ADMITTED to the IM service, you can still be at risk.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/medicine-lowest-rung-in-hospital.html/comment-page-1#comment-73969 Anonymous Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:26:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/medicine-the-lowest-rung-in-the-hospital.html#comment-73969 One of the hospitals I worked at Neurosurgery and Ortho were consult only services through the E.R. That and payment for call were the only ways we could get specialist coverage in the E.R. Even an isolated tibia fracture in a young patient would get admitted to either trauma or medicine. It was worth it to get ortho coverage though no matter how much trauma or medicine complained about it. One of the hospitals I worked at Neurosurgery and Ortho were consult only services through the E.R. That and payment for call were the only ways we could get specialist coverage in the E.R. Even an isolated tibia fracture in a young patient would get admitted to either trauma or medicine. It was worth it to get ortho coverage though no matter how much trauma or medicine complained about it.

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