What does a hospitalist do on a busy night?

Here’s an example, and it shows that mid-level providers really do not have the depth of training to take over hospital care:

Thousands of data points getting interpreted in a constant stream of multitasking. Labs, xrays, records, families, EMR, docs, nurses. All of it being absorbed as I feverishly write my admission orders and do my dictations.

And that’s just the first part of the shift.

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