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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
I thought it was related to JournoList: The HospitaList is an online discussion group for giant, shadowy physicians.
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.
So… is a nurse a Nursalist and a patient a Patientalist?
The camera took the photo at an angle. The giant is actually falling down onto the hospital.