The Hospitalist

The Hospitalist

[Attack of] the [50-Foot] Hospitalist

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EricL
EricL
7 years ago

Don’t you hate it when the Hospitalist leans on the building and causes everything to tilt downward? I would hate to walk those hallways, slanted as they are, let alone try to treat a patient in a tilted operating room.

Hitch
7 years ago
Reply to  EricL

Leans on the building while talking on his Hospitalist Cellphone. I wonder what they’d call that? After all, Batman has the Batphone (and the Batsignal), Superman just HEARS stuff…Maybe that would be the DocSignal? The DocPhone?

What’s the plotline? “Eased out of his lucrative medical practice, for illegally prescribing HGH (Human Growth Hormone) to both his patients and himself, Doctor B. Ohgur adopts the shadowy persona of…the Hospitalist, sworn to fight Death Panels and soaring health insurance prices at all costs.”

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
7 years ago

This kids and their neologisms.

hospitalist (US) A physician who specializes in the care of hospital in-patients. [from c. 1995]

Well, I don’t feel too behind-the-times – the comment editor red line tags the word for spellcheck.

Lydia
Lydia
7 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

So an attending physician, basically. Never heard of hospitalist, and a gawdawful word it is.

My autocorrect just tried to change it to hospitality, so I guess the term didn’t stick. Thank goodness.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
7 years ago
Reply to  Lydia

Another strike against this imprecise neologism hospitalist is that some dictionaries equate it with hospitaller: (a) person who shows hospitality to visitors to an institution, or (b) religious order member who looks after hospital patients.

EricL
EricL
7 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

I thought it was related to JournoList: The HospitaList is an online discussion group for giant, shadowy physicians.

red
red
7 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

And I thought that a hospitalist was a specialist in the care of hospital buildings with structural maladies, like the one on this cover.

This cover made sense before I understood it, and now that I understand it, it doesn’t make any sense at all.

L-Plate Pen
L-Plate Pen
7 years ago

So… is a nurse a Nursalist and a patient a Patientalist?

David
7 years ago

The camera took the photo at an angle. The giant is actually falling down onto the hospital.