Singapore Executives Introduced to Innovative UCSF Hospitalist Program

"A management team from Singapore's flagship hospital came to UCSF recently to study hospital medicine from Robert Wachter, MD, (pictured left) who pioneered the field in which physicians called hospitalists specialize in taking care of hospitalized patients." ....

"We chose UCSF because we read Bob's papers and we know that he is a successful pioneer in this new field," said Lee Kheng Hock, MD, head of the Department of Family Medicine and Continuing Care at Singapore General Hospital (SGH). "We're here to learn and see how we can improve our system. Thanks to the wonderful Internet, we saw his blog and wrote to him. He wrote back and said, 'Welcome - we are more than happy to share our vision with you.'"