Hospitals are doing away with them.
No wonder, as medical care becomes more fractionated with specialists and sub-specialists, and the pressure increases to see more patients, there’s less downtime to spend in the lounge.
It’s a shame, since it makes it difficult to know your colleagues, let alone put a face to the specialist you are consulting.
There are some Internet social networking options, like Sermo, that try to pick up the slack. Obviously, it doesn’t have a local flavor, and certainly isn’t the same as chatting with your colleagues in person.
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I agree that the demise of the physcian lounge is a shame on many levels, from patient care to practice building. It seems that all social aspects of doctoring have gone by the wayside, be they memberships to country clubs, the lounge, and now pharma sponsored events. All that is left are meetings, and with the costs of these and the advent of the webinar, even these may ultimately die off like the dinosaur. Too bad, really.
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