TY - JOUR T1 - Lessons from across the Atlantic: an overview of hospitalist medicine in the USA JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 146 LP - 149 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.4-2-146 VL - 4 IS - 2 AU - Tehmeena Khan Y1 - 2017/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/2/146.abstract N2 - In some healthcare systems, patients are cared for by single organ, or single system, specialists; this undeniably has a place in high-quality, effective patient care. A patient who is having a myocardial infarction would understandably want to be under the care of a cardiac specialist to ensure their treatment is effective, evidence based, and up to date. However, in the current climate of an ageing population, long-term chronic diseases and patients with multiple comorbidities, we are in need of generalist inpatient physicians too. After all, a frail, cognitively impaired, diabetic octogenarian with advanced renal impairment who is having an acute coronary syndrome is very different from a middle aged individual with an acute coronary syndrome. Hospitalist medicine in the USA provides this high-quality generalist inpatient medical care. This article explores the model at Rush University Medical Center in ­Chicago and any lessons we in the UK could learn from them. ER -