Clearly, the attending physician does not have full status at that hospital. I wonder how difficult it would be for a doc who has full porivs, to assist the attending physician? What is wrong with the hearts of the doctors who have full access at that hospital? What has ‘medicine’ come to?++++
It may be a hospitalist model that the hospital uses which means all in hospital care is done by doctors hired inhouse and paid by the hospital. Specialists may be called in but many hospitals have done away with the private physician with admitting privileges model. The hospitals were losing too much money and getting the blame for the private physicians mistakes and arbitrary billing of the patients. Patients get a “billing one stop shop” other than the specialists that may have to be called in. The major hospitals are now hiring doctors’ groups under contract to provide certain trauma,general surgery, and intensivist services for critical care and the hospitals handle the billing for these groups.
Most private and family practice doctors in many areas see no patients in hospital anymore. So the upper hospital management dictates top down what their own employed hospitalists may do; private physicians may be called for more info by these inhouse-doctors but they aren’t under any obligation to follow the private physicians’ advice. Many hospitalists may agree in private principle concerning ivermectin(and many reportedly take it on the sly) but they can’t go against their upper managements’ policies for patient care.