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HOSPITALS
What Is an Attending Physician?
This doctor is responsible for your care in the hospital.
What Is a Hospitalist?
This doctor specializes in caring for patients in the hospital.
What Is a Resident?
This doctor-student is learning on the job.
What Is a Micro-Hospital?
Not having to wait, make doctor appointments months in advance, or sit in the waiting room for an hour or more to see a doctor is attractive to many patients.
What Is an Intern?
This doctor-student is learning on the job.
What Is a Fellow?
A doctor mastering knowledge.
What Are Rounds?
When the members of your healthcare team see you in the hospital.
A Texas Doctor’s Innovative Leadership Brings Help and Hope to Rural Residents
The once faltering Hamilton Hospital is now a model of successful rural healthcare.
A Brief History of Fee for Service
Legislative acts tried and failed to create systems of healthcare delivery that helped to control healthcare costs for businesses and consumers.
The Plight of the Rural Hospital
Why a wave of closures is putting rural residents’ health at risk.