New Hospitalist Math in Mass.
Here’s a story you don’t see every day – at least not now. A report from a local newspaper in
I don’t pretend to know any more about the details of the reportedly pending layoffs of hospitalists than what is reported here. However, I did check the websites of these acute care facilities to learn that they have approximately 330 beds combined.
The article quotes a Cape Cod Hospital spokesperson who states that “There are 33 hospitalists employed at Cape Cod and Falmouth Hospitals”. So perhaps it will come as no surprise that there may be a few less hospitalists at their next company clam bake.
Hospitalists rightly spend a lot of time fretting about physician burnout and working at a pace that is not sustainable. We spend less time looking at the near side of the productivity bell curve. But there seem to be some facilities that indeed are looking – and carefully. The laws of economics may not always work as quickly or reliably as the laws of physics, but eventually they do kick in.
