Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, but will schedule patients same day up until all are seen, on average until 5:45 PM or so. Saturday and Sunday by appointment only generally between 4 PM and 9 PM. Mornings mostly call.
Call schedule: 24 hours a day/7 days per week/365 days per year. Started solo practice December 1, 2006, and have been on call every hour since then. (Oh, yes, the one exception was the three days Adam covered me when I was hospitalized for a SBO -- which the hospitalists treated with hypoxia and morphine -- those PCA pumps have a lockout for a reason).
Hospital: Admit all babies and patients. Do not use the hospitalist service unless patient in ED very late and did NOT call ahead of time.
Work philosphy: Get all notes, scripts, and referral letters done in the room. I am 100% on that unless the server is down. It is HP.
It's 12:20 AM, so I am going home early, lol. But, I spend a lot of after hours working with computers and on here.
Oh, and yes, Adam and I work in Brewer but basically we live in Bangor where the only claim to fame is it's the home of Stephen King who actually donated the money for the pediatric floor.
