Just more people of the same, it’s all a ‘big circle’ in medicine....
Wasn’t all that long ago that hospitals were buying up physicians practices...didn’t end well then.
Now you can’t get a community ‘primary care’ physician to even step foot in a hospital, and certainly not after hours...hence, the hospitals now staffing in house physicians to cover the community docs patients after hours and on weekends...the ‘hospitalists’ It’s a lucrative business, not that it’s shady in any way, but now a Doc is ‘in house’ to see a Pt in the middle of the. night for an apparent drop in Hct, a hypotensive episode, a complaint of ‘chest pain’. They react in real-time, and medico-legally it’s justifiable...but it has the capacity to generate a lot of additional studies and tests.
Do people want real time healthcare or...?
People, and the government are quick to criticize the cost of healthcare until they are the patient.
Having said that, I’ve cerainly seen cases of arguably inappropriate tests/procedures...but not so egregious to report.
But if you want a Doctor immediately available to look at you as an inpatient, don’t be surprised if they order more care in this environment.
What’s that got to do with shitty infection rates?