Bryan Malonga, MD

My Top 5 Horror Stories: Hospitalist Edition

1. Your floor patient decompensates overnight and gets transferred to the ICU.
2. A delirious patient arrives from an outside hospital with no paperwork no records and no sign-out.
3. A patient passes away unexpectedly.
4. A non-decisional patient with a very poor prognosis remains full code because the POA family member who has not seen them in years wants everything done.
5. A critically ill patient dies and the family believes there was more you could have done.

Hospital medicine is not for the weak. Behind every calm note and quick page is a physician trying to make the best decisions with imperfect information high stakes and very real human emotions.

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