Dr. Short also explained an unexpected byproduct of the hiring: Night work proved so popular that the hospitalists have demanded that they receive a specified number of overnight shifts a year. “They went from not wanting it to fighting for it,” Dr. Short says proudly. “There is no one-size-fits-all for hospital programs.”
Dr. Bossard, who founded Inpatient Physician Associates in Lincoln, Neb., says the types of detail-oriented presentations made by Drs. Montgomery and Short are useful if physicians learn lessons they can take home and adapt to their practice. “If it’s a lot of smoke without an action item or a bullet point we can latch on to,” he says, “it’s not as helpful.”
Richard Quinn is a freelance writer based in New Jersey.