hospitalist

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hospitalist

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From hospital + -ist. The “physician” sense was coined by Robert M. Wachter and Lee Goldman in a 1996 article in The New England Journal of Medicine.

noun hospitalists

A hospitaller.
US A physician who specializes in the care of hospital inpatients.

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"hospitalist." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hospitalist. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"hospitalist." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hospitalist.

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@misc{hospitalist_2026,
  title = {hospitalist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hospitalist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}