I'll always remember my first shift as an attending. Where I trained in residency everyone was either well enough to go home or sick enough to need the ICU, conveniently enough for the hospitalist. They would sometimes come down to the ED and discharge our patients for us (WTF?!?) Anyway, this first shift as an attending, I had a patient who was too weak to safely go home. And I was geared up to do BATTLE. I called the admitting doc, itching for a fight, and they just said, "Ok great, we'll be down to see her in 10 minutes". A little stunned, I just said thank you and hung up the phone.
The return to family as a society is the first step.
I doubt Big Hospital and Big Insurance will allow that to happen, more's the pity.
I'll always remember my first shift as an attending. Where I trained in residency everyone was either well enough to go home or sick enough to need the ICU, conveniently enough for the hospitalist. They would sometimes come down to the ED and discharge our patients for us (WTF?!?) Anyway, this first shift as an attending, I had a patient who was too weak to safely go home. And I was geared up to do BATTLE. I called the admitting doc, itching for a fight, and they just said, "Ok great, we'll be down to see her in 10 minutes". A little stunned, I just said thank you and hung up the phone.