National Impact of Pioneering Surgical Hospitalist Program

At most hospitals nationally, it takes nearly four hours on average before the surgeon on call becomes available, and even longer before the operation is finally begun. At UCSF Medical Center, the goal is for the patient to be seen by a "surgical hospitalist" in less than 30 minutes................"Over the first year of our program, the average waiting time was 20 minutes," says Hobart Harris, MD, Professor of Surgery at UCSF and Chief of the Division of General Surgery.
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