10 Things Oncologists Think Hospitalists Need to Know
10 Things Oncologists Think Hospitalists Need to Know
At the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where a pilot hospitalist program that began six years ago has grown into a permanent part of the center, treatment comes from all angles, not just medical, says Josiah Halm, MD, MS, FACP, FHM, CMQ, and Sahitya Gadiraju, DO, assistant professors of general internal medicine at the center.
"I think the biggest thing is to understand that a cancer patient is very complex and there's much more than the physical component," says Dr. Gadiraju, one of nine hospitalists at MD Anderson. "There's an emotional component. There's a mental component. There's the family that's involved.
"One of the biggest things that we do is not just support the patient physically and medically but also emotionally and mentally. And we provide very good family support working as part of an interdisciplinary team."
3. Treating Cancer Is More Than Treating Cancer
At the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where a pilot hospitalist program that began six years ago has grown into a permanent part of the center, treatment comes from all angles, not just medical, says Josiah Halm, MD, MS, FACP, FHM, CMQ, and Sahitya Gadiraju, DO, assistant professors of general internal medicine at the center.
"I think the biggest thing is to understand that a cancer patient is very complex and there's much more than the physical component," says Dr. Gadiraju, one of nine hospitalists at MD Anderson. "There's an emotional component. There's a mental component. There's the family that's involved.
"One of the biggest things that we do is not just support the patient physically and medically but also emotionally and mentally. And we provide very good family support working as part of an interdisciplinary team."
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