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Letters - HCAHPS on weekend call July 20, 2013 - Joseph Bujak's Response
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On Jul 20, 2013, at 8:04 AM, "Joseph Bujak" wrote:

These represent the intended approach of a professional. Someone for whom being a physician is their self-identity. It is their life's work and not a job. This attitude is being extinguished as being a doctor becomes a job, a means to an end, only a part of one’s self-identity. Don't think that this is an either/or, but a both/and. Perhaps hospitalists can bridge the gap since they don't have to "run off' to the office after morning rounds. But the nature of relationship seems to me to be in conflict with the concept of shift work. Otherwise the moving parts need to be interchangeable. That concept too stands to challenge professionalism. What do you think Larry?