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The American Medical Association<\/a> reports that a growing number of physicians are choosing to be “hospitalists<\/a>.” These doctors work in the hospital full time, while their colleagues provide care in local offices.<\/p>\n

The advantage for the patient is that care is not disrupted when the doctor has to rush off to the hospital to attend to another patient there. Meanwhile, doctors don’t have to drive to hospitals, search through parking lots for a place to put their cars, then rush into a hospital to find a patient to provide care.<\/p>\n

The hospitalist program seems to be an advantage to everyone involved. But hospitalists say physicians in each community need to be involved closely in determining how hospitalist programs are structured. They say physicians should decide how information will be communicated between settings, who will do what, how reimbursement will be handled and the protocols for certain procedures.<\/p>\n

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