Why the battle against being called a provider is probably lost
I recently needed to transfer my patient to a larger medical center for some urgent care. As I sat there in my relatively small hospital working out where they would be best served, a famous academic medical center that was not too far away, came to mind. I placed a call to the facility’s bed facilitator, who took the patient’s details from me, and was told to await a callback from the medicine resident team on-call. I didn’t have to wait very long before I got the call.
“Hello”
“Hello, did you want to talk to us about a patient?”
“Yes, I am the attending physician taking care of patient xxx, and I want to discuss a transfer over to you.”
“Oh, sure, I’m the intern, can I just pass you over to my senior?”
“OK.”
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