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hospitalist, n. Brit. |ˈhɒspɪtlˌɪst|, |ˈhɒspɪtəlɪst|, U.S. |ˈhɑspədlˌəst| [‹ hospital n. + -ist suffix. With sense 1 compare earlier hospitaller n. Sense 2 apparently represents a later re-formation.] †1. = hospitaller n. 2. Obs. rare.
1641J. Johnson Acad. of Love 66, I entred the place of Medicinall practice, where I beheld a thousand beauties, whose profession I could easily imagine to be De medicina, or Cupids Hospitalists. 2. Med. (chiefly U.S.). A physician specializing in the care of hospital in-patients.
1971High Cost of Hospitalization (U.S. Senate Judiciary Comm.: Subcomm. on Antitrust & Monopoly) I. 280 Investigation into and control of the compensation to hospital in-house hospitalists. 1996Nursing Oct. 10/1 Several managed-care groups have already begun to use full-time hospitalists. 2004K. Bartholomew Speak your Truth ii. 38 Casey calls the hospitalist because her patient is experiencing a severe exacerbation of coronary obstructive pulmonary disease. |