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Train IM hospitalists in palliative care to ensure patient comfort
Many hospitalist programs managers—if they haven't already—will see an increase in patients' need for palliative care. According to Jean Kutner, MD, MSPH, professor of medicine and division head of general internal medicine at the University of Colorado Denver, the growing need for palliative care hospitalists is a result of the aging baby boomer population and modern medicine’s ability to prolong the lives of those with chronic diseases.
"There is also a growing realization that [hospitalists] haven't been doing a good job, and there are a lot of people who have been suffering," says Kutner.
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