GOMERology As a Subspecialty of Hospitalist and Emergency Medicine.

I have been a practicing hospitalist now since 2003.  In that ten years, hospitalist medicine has been the fasting growing medical specialty in America.  Our tentacles run deep and they run far.  We offer incredible value, directly and indirectly,  in the delivery of hospital based medicine.  We are maturing as a field and we shall continue to define our role in the constantly changing Medicare landscape. Hospitalist medicine even has its own focused maintenance of certification board exam.  I believe this vindicates the field as a stand alone specialty.  However, just as it took a decade to divide internal medicine into an inpatient vs outpatient experience, a great divide is occurring within the field of hospitalist medicine that is spilling over into the field of  emergency medicine too. I present to you the fastest growing subspecialist in hospitalist and emergency medicine:  The  GOMERologist.  That's right folks.  You heard it here first on The Happy Hospitalist.   Mark your calendars.  In ten years, the fields of hospitalist medicine and emergency medicine are going to offer a combined subspecialty board in GOMERology.   I sat for my internal medicine boards late last year and rocked them solidly.    Ten years from now I am going kill my GOMERology boards without even lifting a finger. Emergency Medicine News recently published an article by Dr Edwin Leap titled Second Op...
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