The Happy Hospitalist: “I shudder to think of how an extender would respond to this type of complex multiorgan failure scenario when plopped on their lap at 1 am. And this is the norm of hospitalist medicine, not the exception.”
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Putting the minimally trained people taking care of the sickest patients is just dumb. But dumb is in.
One of the most enduring clinal pearls that has held true in 3 decades of practice was the one by one old internist who cautioned me to never make assumptions about anyone having or exercising good common sense in clinical medicine. As he put it:
“Common sense is uncommon.”
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